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Holy Cowboys

Varun Chopra · India · Documentary / Crime · 24 min · 19K views

Directed by Varun Chopra · Starring Ankit Yadav, Gopal Yadav · 2022

In rural India, teenage boys who set out to become saviours of the holy cow find themselves in the grip of Hindu nationalist extremism, in a dispatch from a democracy at a crossroads.

An urgent, intimate dispatch showing how ordinary teenagers get swept up in a rising tide of religious nationalism.

Teenagers set off to become saviors of a holy cow only to find themselves under the grips of Hindu nationalist extremism.

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