“Bawaal” Movie Is an Experience of Dark Tourism for the Indian Audience

Abstract

Dark tourism is a place for tourists to travel to understand the deaths, suffering, and tragedy. Nowadays, movie makers have positioned dark tourism as a source of edutainment for society, contributing to the marketing of dark places. This type of education helps children to make associations between museum artifacts, memories, battles, and visitors’ lives. This study explores how movies have put forth on dark tourism and edutainment by involving audiences, especially students, through storytelling techniques. This research analyses the content of the Bollywood movie Bawaal (2023), which was based on education from the sites of World War II, a holocaust in Europe. Movies can improve students’ and children’s interest in history. There is a need to understand how movies are closely linked to dark tourism. The result shows that explaining dark tourist places is essential for the upcoming generation to maintain their connection with the world’s history. This study will spread consciousness about World War II or Holocaust places and help indirectly market dark tourism.

Citation

Sharma, S. (2024), "“Bawaal” Movie Is an Experience of Dark Tourism for the Indian Audience", Sharma, A., Arora, S. and Shukla, P. (Ed.) Dark Tourism (Building the Future of Tourism), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 205-212. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83797-336-120241015