Mass Comm Entrance Test Paper Essay

1 The following sample do not include all the questions MCV Admission Test, 2006 Time: 2 Hours Full Marks: 100 Brief and to the Point Answers will be Appreciated Write the following on top of your answer scripts: Name: Admission Test Roll No.: School: Board: Subjects: Purpose of Choosing MCV: COMPREHENSION TEST 35 Marks

Bollywood in its contemporary manifestation offers Indian diasporic youth a platform for organizing their cultural life which is ‘acceptable’ to the West and at the same time retains a measure of difference. The widely held notion that for Indians, no matter where they live, India largely derives from its movies holds a special significance for Fiji Indians for whom India is largely an imagined entity (‘mother’ but not ‘home’). For the Fiji Indian youth in Australia, the relation between Bollywood and India is even more an imaginary one. This might suggest that reception takes place in an historical vacuum, but young Fiji Indians, more than any other Indian group in Australia, are keen on appropriating Hindi popular films to fashion a cultural identity that is their own. Be it in the special meaning that Bollywood has for the Fiji Indian community or the reinvigoration of folk traditions inherited from India, be it in their friction with mainland Indians or their bid to re-imagine an entity called ‘India’ (from which they were once ‘extracted’ and to which they do not harbour any illusion of return but nonetheless continually seek recourse to as an imagined nodal point of identity), be it in their relatively westernized values or in the emphasis placed on tradition – the cultural life of Fiji Indians in their current western locations is inalienably linked to their genealogy of the last 130 years – the history of the Plantation Raj and after. We will not so much embrace celebration of the ontological condition of the diasporic imagination but focus on the contingent course of historical subjectivity of this twice-displaced community, a course...