Uproar over Ravan: Why Bollywood fails to understand Ramayan
FirstpostRamayan is the soul of India. SS Rajamouli’s films invariably hit the bulls-eye precisely because he adopts a reverential approach — a basic precondition that Bollywood fails to meet in the very first place. In Deewar, for instance, Amitabh Bachchan’s character had issues going to a temple, but that didn’t come in the way of conceding the sacredness of “Billa No 786” — a pious number among Muslims. In Aamir Khan’s 3 Idiots, too, while Hindu characters are shown as stupid and superstitious, with their fingers full of rings and are shown feeding milk to snakes, the Muslim character is rather progressive! They organised these “lowly” people, who in today’s scenario would qualify to be the Scheduled Tribes, against a Brahmin kingdom called Lanka.
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