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Are North Indians looking at our films in Hindutva angle?
By: Tupaki Desk | 28 March 2022 3:49 PM GMT
These days India has been looking at a surge partisan politics. Either you support right wing or oppose it. If you're neutral, people are trying to influence you to join one side.
With one ideology dominating at the centre, many think the secularist ideology has become a thing of past. Recent support for films like Kashmir Files, Akhanda, Pushpa and now RRR from North Indian markets seem to indicate so.
In RRR, Rajamouli tried to showcase Alluri Seetha Rama Raju as Lord Rama, Alia Bhatt as Seetha and Bheem played by NTR is implied to be Hanuman, in the climax.
We can see videos being circulated with people shouting "Jai Sri Ram" in theatres, during Ram Charan's entry in known Alluri get up. This is a clever ploy by Rajamouli and even though he said Baahubali is designed keeping Rama in mind, RRR seems to have been connected by audiences as Lord Rama's intervention to help the heroes in the climax.
Akhanda's Shiva shot in climax and Baahubali are being compared to Bollywood portrayal of Hindu Gods, or jokes using them, to say that Telugu Cinema is giving right respect to God's and Hindus.
Well, today the makers might be happy looking at box office returns and market growth but this kind of domination of one ideology in a country which is still democratic and secular at the heart, is worrisome. Don't you think so?
With one ideology dominating at the centre, many think the secularist ideology has become a thing of past. Recent support for films like Kashmir Files, Akhanda, Pushpa and now RRR from North Indian markets seem to indicate so.
In RRR, Rajamouli tried to showcase Alluri Seetha Rama Raju as Lord Rama, Alia Bhatt as Seetha and Bheem played by NTR is implied to be Hanuman, in the climax.
We can see videos being circulated with people shouting "Jai Sri Ram" in theatres, during Ram Charan's entry in known Alluri get up. This is a clever ploy by Rajamouli and even though he said Baahubali is designed keeping Rama in mind, RRR seems to have been connected by audiences as Lord Rama's intervention to help the heroes in the climax.
Akhanda's Shiva shot in climax and Baahubali are being compared to Bollywood portrayal of Hindu Gods, or jokes using them, to say that Telugu Cinema is giving right respect to God's and Hindus.
Well, today the makers might be happy looking at box office returns and market growth but this kind of domination of one ideology in a country which is still democratic and secular at the heart, is worrisome. Don't you think so?
