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By Sumna Sadaqat After politics, business and academics, the ostracization of Muslims has gradually permeated into the entertainment industry as well, with Bollywood blockbusters failing to represent Muslims. Neither as comedians, nor as side characters Muslims have suddenly disappeared from most movie scripts these days which instils a sense of alienation amongst the community. But this lack of representation has been wedded with Bollywood’s silent romanticization of Islamophobia over years through movies like ‘Padmavat’, ‘Lipstick under my Burqa’, and ‘Tanjahi’, The Kashmir Files, and Ham Do Humare Do, projecting Muslims...