People stand outside a movie theater screening “The Kashmir Files,” (photo by Debarchan Chatterjee for NurPhoto via AP).

Bollywood has long played a significant nation-building role in India. But over the past decade, both onscreen and off, it has increasingly fed into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s particular brand of nation-building, by both reinforcing anti-Muslim sentiment and engaging in Hindu-nationalist revisionist history.

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