| If Kabir Khan in Shahrukh Khan starred Chak De India | | | | about the blast without investigation jihadi group |
| puts question mark on the loyalty of the Indian Muslims | | | | compulsorily is supposed to take the take the |
| towards Indian nation, here is Zaid Ahmad Khan (ACP), | | | | responsibility. In an interview with Anti Terrorist Squad |
| a true, secular, modern Muslim struggling to prove his | | | | head Raj Mehra (Gulshan Grover) it is made clear that |
| credentials of being a loyal citizen towards India. | | | | Jihadists or Jihadi Sanghathan by referring to Muslims |
| Mukesh Bhatt’s Muzammil Ibrahim starred | | | | are responsible for the Blast. How often do |
| ‘Dhokha’ or ‘Betrayal’ is the | | | | we see naxalites being termed as Jihadists? By |
| Bollywood’s latest offering that raises several | | | | referring jihad without any inquiry involvement of |
| questions about Muslims and their identity in India. | | | | Muslims becomes necessary. Islam is seen as |
| Coming for the first time out the rhetoric of his fluffy | | | | equivalent of jihad and Muslims as Jihadists thus |
| musicals, Mukesh Bhatt’s Dhokha tries to get to the | | | | terrorists as for the mainstream goes. Muslims are |
| bottom of delicate question of Hindu-Muslim | | | | shown as community never to be believed, as they |
| antagonism. Dhokha displays the actuality of terrorism | | | | can be betray at any instance “yeh qaum Jo hai in |
| and its endless costs. As someone has rightly | | | | ka koi bharosa nahin kabhi bhi kisi ko dhoka desakte |
| remarked partition is an unending process, beginning of | | | | hai bloody traitors”. When Zaid, an honorable |
| the cultivation of categorical Hindu and Muslim | | | | police inspector is enquired of his wife’s |
| dichotomy, the process that was instigated with | | | | involvement in the blast, a question that rises in mind is |
| partition. After 60 years of partition, there is a | | | | can a Muslim be an |
| continuing dilemma on the subject of Muslims | | | | |
| constituting 16% of the total population in a Hindu | | | | Zaid till now respected, trendy, |
| majoritarian state. | | | | dedicated young Indian Muslim abruptly falls in an |
| Muslims in Dhokha are symbolized as | | | | ambush of proving his dependability as true Muslim |
| misguided, disloyal other worldly communities that have | | | | Indian police officer. He is typified as person who has a |
| taken other form of living to retaliate namely world | | | | bit commonnality with Arabs “hindi samajh main |
| celebrated term jihad (holy war). Zaid Ahmad | | | | nahin aati Arbi (Arabic) main samjaoon”. There are |
| (Muzammil Ibrahim) a true Muslim nationalist, police | | | | two sections of Hindu’s represented in Dhokha. |
| officer is suspected of his fidelity towards Hindu India. | | | | First is the section who believe in Zaid’s innocence |
| On the night of a lethal bombing at the New Century | | | | despite knowing infidelity of his wife. This section |
| Club, Mumbai, Zaid helps the horrified victims in the | | | | supporting a Muslim is branded as pseudo liberals, |
| blast. Zaid affirms of donating blood to one of the | | | | pseudo secularists by the opposition. The other group |
| injured supposed to be a Hindu. The dilemma mounts | | | | has always remained suspicious of the Muslim loyalty |
| when the father of the injured repudiates to receive | | | | towards India. Their terminology for Muslims appears to |
| any aid from Zaid as he would like to see his daughter | | | | be as terrorists, treacherous (jis thali main khate hai usi |
| dead rather than letting the blood of a Muslim, a traitor, | | | | main chedte hai). |
| perfidious creature to flow in his daughters veins. | | | | At the end even it is shown how the |
| Though the film progressively engages itself in | | | | injustices done to person can transform human beings |
| denouncing the people who spread terror in the name | | | | into human bombs. The question that will remain is why |
| of religion and tries to find out reasons for the root | | | | only Muslims have to prove their loyalty towards India. |
| cause of terrorism still it doesn’t provide the solution | | | | There can a bad Hindu, but she/he is never labeled as |
| to Islamophobia that’s deeply inculcated into the | | | | anti nationalist. Like Hindus, even Muslims have |
| psyche of general masses. When the media reports | | | | struggled and strived for the independence of India. |