Subhash Jha, an Indian film critic and writer, said popular Indian films about the colonial-era frequently depicted the British as operatic villains.
A Indian queen fights bloody, over-the-top battles against British soldiers in a colonial-era Bollywood blockbuster that opens in India’s cinemas on Friday.
After the 1857 rebellion was put down, the British government formally replaced the East India Company as India’s ruler.
Westerners such as the Australian actor Bob Christo made decades-long careers of playing menacing white villains in Indian films.