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Opinion | Selective Outrage: When The West Applauds Its Myths But Judges India’s

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31.03.2026

Opinion | Selective Outrage: When The West Applauds Its Myths But Judges India’s

Why suggest that when Western filmmakers rewrote the narrative on Vietnam it was catharsis but when Indian filmmakers take a leaf out of the same narrative book it is propaganda?

Does anyone remember a film called Missing in Action? It erupted in American theatres in 1984 starring that “one-man army", Chuck Norris.

The film was gratuitously violent, narcissistic, pure “Reagan-era revisionism" attempting to recast the lost cause of Vietnam as a rescue mission instead of a misguided, unwinnable war. Norris won instant acclaim.

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