Jackie Chan’s new movie Kung Fu Yoga features an Indian character praising President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an ambitious China-led connectivity project that India has so far declined to join, with film critics calling it “brazen political propaganda”. The RMB 400-million movie, which was released in China on January 28, is one of three Sino-India joint productions. The adventure comedy spanning China, India and Dubai has an Indian character who vindicates the BRI project while talking to Chan, who plays an archaeologist expert on India-China relations. “Basically, in the movie, the Indian archaeologist comes to China to ask Jackie Chan’s Chinese archaeologist to help her research as he’s supposed to be an expert on Indo-Chinese cross-cultural history. “Someone criticised Chan’s preaching in the film, and actually Jackie had done that in his early period films.

Source: Hindustan Times February 01, 2017 14:03 UTC