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The “Padmavat” controversy!

Right since the inception of the much talked about Bollywood movie “Padmavat” it has been blanketed and submerged in controversies! While some continued to believe that it is nothing but publicity, the others stood strongly against it.
Unfortunately, the strongly against wasn’t limited to the vocal cords but it did hit and affect, and is continuing to affect the masses much beyond it! It did catch my attention when I read about some unusual things where the director’s head and the actresses nose was demanded, and I have been following and reading about the drama since then. Trust me the more I read it the more I got confused about the human race. In fact, after a recent appalling incidence, I was certain that there is a blend of the human heart with the devil's mind in some people which is resulting in activities as surprising as attacking the school kids. Here is what I tweeted on the day following that incidence.

I am very certain that I will lose an argument if I start discussing the historical details with someone of the concerned region, I don’t want to win an argument either. All that I want to put forth here is that any form of Cinema or any work based on true events has always been just inspired from the history and never been an exact replication of the facts and figures. I am not certain as to how many people who have been putting forth questions now ever questioned the authenticity of events shown in other period and religious movies made in the past. List them out and go watch them again, I am so sure, you will run into questions in many scenes and events if you dissect them, relate them, and justify them as per the present scenario. In the process of standing against some events which the people of a certain region believe are not shown in the right way, they have actually degraded and demeaned their own culture! I guess even history would want us to do the right thing in the present, rather than fighting and degrading ourselves for the right things of the past. For a moment if I do agree that there is a distortion of facts and incidences then in no way has any scene depicted anything that is awful for any culture. I don’t know what history existed back then, but I am sure that all this that went by and is going on certainly won’t create a history to remember!
Another very interesting debate that I read online recently was the overall crux of the movie by some viewers, as per which they have blamed and questioned the director to show women as a weaker sex. I didn’t know whether to laugh on it or feel surprised at the way people think. I am not certain if people do understand what a period drama is! Wake up guys! Women have come a long way than what is shown in the movie, which certainly is an event of the past! The film did come with a long disclaimer as well. Are we so intolerant or Immature? If the news of controversies was confined to the newspaper I may have never written this blog, but I was forced to write this because of the posts and discussions on the social media by people whom I know and who do exist.
And yet again, my ending message would be very similar to what I want to convey in most of my posts…Don’t we have enough hatred already? Aren’t we tired of fighting over everything? It does require a lot of effort to put forth any creative work, let’s appreciate the hard work and creativity of the artists than picking out on the drawbacks. Let’s focus on creating history in our arenas than hanging to the events of the past. Live, Love, Laugh!

(You can write to me on vandita5jan@gmail.com)

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