Lets Discuss SSRajamouli's new Film, RRR, and let's discuss the controversy around the new teaser
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Just like a constipated person has trouble going to the bathroom, Bollywood is having trouble making many original concepts and songs
Most of the originality in Indian cinemas is coming from regional cinema.
Its regional cinema, from where stories are being stolen, a fresh coal of makeup is being put on them, and then thrown in front of the public
Its hardly a surprise that a movie like Baahulbali came from the South and not Bollywood
The South was the keeper of Indian culture while the north was under Mughal occupation
Baahubali showed India that movies made using Indian culture and not making fun of Indian culture and still make crores of rupees
So another original story has come from the director of Bahubali, SS Rajamouli
This story is about two great freedom fighters from Andhra Pradesh/Telangana: Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem. These are two heroes that people don’t know a lot about
the passing of the 1882 Madras Forest Act in an attempt to exploit the economic value of wooded areas, meant that tribals faced starvation
and their main means of avoiding it was the demeaning, arduous, foreign and exploitative coolie system use by the government and its contractors for such things as road construction
Alluri spoke up for the tribals and he used guerilla warfare to attack British from his jungle positions.
The british couldn’t deal with his attacks and had to eventually create the Special Malabar Police force who was specifically trained in guerilla warfare
He was finally captured and executed by the british in 1924. He was referred to as "Manyam Veerudu" (transl. 'Hero of the Jungle') by the local people
Komuram Bheem was an Indian tribal leader who fought against the Asaf Jahi dynasty for the liberation of Hyderabad.
Nizam converted lakhs of Hindus, forced economic hardships on Hindus in the form of tax discrimination, changed the names of many Hindu cities
Bheem waged war against the Nizam and refused to abide by any law of the Nizam. He took up arms against Nizam's soldiers(Razakars) who showed incredible cruelty against Hindus
Our Jai Bheem Jai Meem superstar like Owaisi whose Party’s old leader was the head of the same Razakars, has never criticized the razakars, and is today doing jai Bheem Jai meem
Tide only removes stains, secularism removes all crimes as well
Komaram Bheem is regarded as a deity (or pen in Gondi) among Gond Adivasi community
I’m very happy that such leaders who have sacrificed for India and her culture are being highlighted in movies
As much as gandhi should be respected, leaders who remembered and used their Kshatriya Dharma should be celebrated in India
But there is still some controversy around this movie, and particularly the character of Komaram Bheem.
In the teaser, Komaram Bheem, who was not a Muslim, was seen in Islamic clothes
People were wondering why, a person, who hated the Nizam and fough against Islam rule his whole life would be dressed in Islamic clothes
Has Rajamouli caught secularitis? This disease spreads faster than the corona.
Even his own Community, the Gonds are angry
Youtube, being a secular channel, I support this. So don’t demonetize me.
But I think, we need to remember that we have only seen a teaser of the movie. We don’t have any context
Remember that he fought using guerilla tactics against the Nizam and his razakars so he may be using a disguise to fool the razakars to escape or do a surprise attack
Remember that in the teaser where they introduce Sitarama Raju, he is proudly wearing a Janeu, which according to our liberals only fascists wear.
So he is not afraid to be proud of Indian culture.
Until we know the context of that scene, its unfair to completely criticize SS Rajamoului, someone who created Baahubali.
Another controversy is people and “historians” claiming that Komaram Bheem, and the entire Gond community are not Hindu.
Then what are they? Ghosts? Came out of nowhere? Aliens left them here?
Do you get paid to say stupid things
Akash Poyam, who himself belongs to Gond tribe says Gonds are not Hindus
But she changed her story
Please decide madam
Even according to 1961 census of Andhra Pradesh, Not a SINGLE GOND was a Muslim
I think her brain is full of "Boosa"
You may think that Hindutvawadis may be lying but see from Gonds themselves
Gonds call themselves descendants of Mahabharata warriors and they worship Gandhari and Hidimbi" - Biography of Komaram Bheem by Gond historian Bhukya China Venkateshwarlu
Same concept of love for land, seeing the earth as mother, trees and rivers as deities
But they are not Hindus. Like this photo has 4 tyres, runs with an engine, used petrol, diesel or battery, carries passengers from one place to the other, but it's not a car
Adivasi groups are not complaining against Hindu tag, its mostly Historians and individual gonds
Missionaries and foreign anthropologists, to stop Tribal uprisings and to convert tribal cultures started saying that tribals were not Hindus.
Verrier Elwin himself slowly evolved from a colonial missionary to a more empathetic almost post-colonial self-taught anthropologist. He confessed in his Missionaries and Aboriginals
The liberal icon Gandhi also clearly considered tribals Hindus as he said to a British missionary:
Its dangerous that Leftists in India are now following the foreign missionary line. What do you get by dividing Indian society this way?