About the Book: The Bleeding Lotus: Notions of Nation in Bangladeshi Cinema
In The Bleeding Lotus, the eminent Australian writer John W. Hood has
reconstructed the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War in all its dimensions and
subtexts as seen through the films made in that country in the subsequent
decades. The diabolic night of March 25, 1971 when the Pakistani army
indiscriminately attacked and slaughtered thousands of ordinary people in Dhaka
using deadly war weapons, comes alive through the pages of the book. The heroic
armed struggle of the countrys youth against the 'colonial rule of West Pakistan
has since inspired many filmmakers. Their films both documentary and