![]() ![]() At one level, the films reflect an anxiety about the effect of globalization on the Indian middle class, manifested in the perceived diminishing role of religion, increased vulnerability of children in a globalized environment, and changing gender roles. In exclusively privileging the boy-child as a reflection of god, the films reinforce the widespread cultural valorization of male infants in India. Ruia, the My Friend Ganesha trilogy (2007–2010) and Main Krishna Hoon (2013 translated as I Am Krishna) create a homological relationship between the boy-gods and young male protagonists, drawing on the Hindu cultural ideal of the child as divinity (Kakar 1978, Sharma 2003). This chapter explores the construction of Hindu boyhood in four Hindi mythological composite films that feature the Hindu gods Ganesha and Krishna as animated boy-gods.
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