‘Ram Setu’ movie review: A bridge too far to cross for Akshay Kumar
The flow of films that voice the present political dispensation’s cultural manifesto has reached a volume where we can pick the cogent from the shrill and the forthright from the manipulative. In this distinct category of films, where you can see Whatsapp messages and dinner table discussions come alive-on screen, Ram Setu is a persuasive attempt to keep afloat the contentious theory that the limestone shoals that connect the Pamban and Munnar islands are part of a man-made structure and not a work of nature. Drawing from the controversy around the Sethusamudram Project and Pushkar Bhatnagar’s little-known 2003 book where the writer attempted to date the era of Lord Ram on the basis of planetary positions described in Valmiki’s Ramayan, the makers have tried to construct a bridge between faith and science, between myth and oral history, and between religion and culture. Ram Setu is directed by Abhishek Sharma, but the voice is of creative producer and co-writer Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, one of the creative forces who work in the realm of fiction to provide legitimacy to the realpolitik of the ruling party and paint the previous governments in dark shades. Here again, he positions a venerated epic poem as a source of historical evidence to keep the faithful invested and convert the fence-sitters, for Adam’s Bridge or Ram Setu is one spot that takes the story of Ram beyond the religious semantics and geographical boundaries.
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