(This story was first published on February 25 after Chhawwa’s release and was now re-exposed to the recent clashes in Nagpur, in which one was injured. Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis blamed Vicky Kaushal-Starr Chhawa to urge out the anger among people against Aurangzeb.
In India, history is consistently legendary, the myth is confused with historical facts, and cinema often steps as a grand protector of moments of moments. In this scenario, Rama and Ravana cannot be imaginary, indicating otherwise despite archaeological evidence. Here, there are divine incarnations to kings who have been sent to protect people from evil – and ‘other’ is always demonic intruder.
This continuous fusion of political and spiritual has shaped a powerful heritage of storytelling in India, where human struggles are not worldly, but are interconnected with divine effects.
This binary perspective oversees complex history, which reduces the bipoles of good vs. evil. And like Bollywood biopics Chorus (2025), Padmaavat (2018), and saffron (2019) has regularly participated in construction, strengthening and capitalization on this distorted memory of the past which feeds in communal tensions.
Mythology business
Chorus Chronic the stable resistance of Chhatrapati sambhaji maharaj (Painted by Vicky Kaushal) for the Mughal rule because he carries forward the legacy of his father, Maratha Empire Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj for the protection of Maratha freedom and dominance in western India.
The success of the film is largely for the divine mittermaking and secret marketing strategy, which is probably praised for the Sambhaji – often for his strategic mind, cruel feeling, and guerrilla warfare – it would also have been affected.
A conversion of Shivaji Sawant’s Marathi novel of the same name, Laxman Utekar Chorus Despite a Tipid response in its pre-localiz days, it is doing well at the box office. Chorus Has attained immense pomp and hysteria. It has earned Rs 293.41 crore and is expected to fly around the world and fly before the mark of Rs 500 crore before wrapping the domestic and 65.83 crores (at the time of writing this article) and its theater run.
In view of Akshaye Khanna’s diabolic Aurangzeb, after crying with frenzied enthusiasm in chanting the youth and praising Sambhaji’s bravery, with videos of enthusiastic fan outs on social media and outside and outside the film hall, watching the screen to cry, people, even to praise the film, from people, people, to the film.
The formula has been sadly simple Chorus: Hyper-emotional storytelling shook with modern ideas with a dash of Islamophobia Swaraj In exchange for nuances and historical accuracy.
Before British rule, Swaraj, Or self-governance, and a “concept of”AKhand Bharat“(Unfamiliar India) was clearly not clear in the same way as it is today. Despite the spirit of cultural unity, India was a patchwork of various states, empires and regional powers before being colonized.
But it is no surprise that there is no inclination to retail facts in a large -scale Bollywood biopic – no difference that it can be more thrilling anytime than any imagination – but falls back to the redective narrative figure. YouTekar had to apologize to the descendants of Ganoji and Kanhoji Shirke as traitors for his portrayal, causing Sambhaji to occupy.
Allegedly, the director issued a statement in which the nicknames of Ganoji and Kanhoji and their deliberate lapse of the village were clarified to avoid “hurt feelings”. This is the entry of historical eradication and wrong bayani.
Although it is not unexpected from Bollywood, it matters – not only for the living descendants of the people, but also for the large sections of the people – when the current political zeitgeist was studied.
There is an increase in access to information, but media literacy is an all -time low due to misinformation, echoes and complexity of modern media, where propagation and fake news keep flying under the radar.
The arrival of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly complicating cases, while many struggles to assess many sources. In this scenario, it becomes necessary to examine the bio -ziprices that portray historical figures that are very relevant to the current political mood of the nation and serve to politicize cultural identity in contemporary society.
At the risk of looking like a broken record, Indian films that unilaterally depict Hindus as righteous and Muslims, purely strengthens dangerous stereotypes as evil. It is important to question why data like Aurangzeb is seen as religious fundamentalists, while others who (and continue to continue) a Hindu Nation It is observed without the same investigation.
How to avoid hypodermic effect
‘Hypodermic needle theory’, which suggests and studies how the media directly affects the audience, gained popularity as media platforms in the shadow of world war during radio and film rise in the 1930s. This theory attracted widespread attention after the controversial broadcast of Orson Wales’ war of the Worlds In 1938, where many listeners were clearly nervous.
Researchers in the field of Herold Laswell and other communication studies believed that the audience was inactive recipients of media messages that could be easily manipulated with publicity.
This theory imagined the media to “injection” with its messages, which effectively and rapidly put their content in our bloodstream directly to a hypodermic needle.
Paul Lazsfeld and Harta Herzog dismissed the principle in the 1940s, stating that Rai leaders had a more effective way to influence the public, proposed by a two-step flow model of media manipulation.
Hypodermic effects are rapidly relevant in the digital age. Algorithm with curating materials, people are in contact with targeted messages that shape beliefs and ideas. In the era of misinformation, Siddhant underlines the power of media, including Bollywood, which is the world’s largest film industry in terms of output in affecting public perception and behavior.
While many critics mentioned technical and narrative failures Chorus As a film (at the cost of obtaining the dangers of death from anonymous sources as well as high-up rejection), some sections of the audience have fully praised due to its emotional effect. Shivaji and Sambhaji are important historical figures in India. They are internally associated with Maratha Pride and her people who have grown up listening to their valor stories. However, this resistance was not present in the binergies.
Was more than religious ideology at stake, on the contrary Chorus Painted; Empire-building and wealth accumulation were also the major concerns of the Maratha kings.
Turn (Or Borgis),, A mild mounted freight group of the Maratha Empire, existing for this purpose – expansion of the area. They find a place in the cultural memory of Bengal; Like in lullaby “Rotate khoka, para jurlo“(The child sleeps, the neighborhood sleeps) invites citizen As bpheyman to scare children, And singer Hemant Mukherjee “” in “” in “Dhitang Dhitang Bole,
Of course, Maratha expansion in Bengal and Bihar, and bar The raids that terrorize its original inhabitants occurred long after the rule of Sambhaji. Shivaji and Sambhaji focused on liberation rather than mostly expansion or dominance. However, Chorus Already, real -life has been influenced by historical accounts.
After ChorusMaharashtra Cyber Cell has filed a case against at least four Wikipedia editors to write “objectionable material” on Sambhaji.
The notice has cited a law-and-order situation in the state. Wikipedia is a free, online encyclopedia that allows users to create and edit articles. It is an passionate location cuisted, which is usually reliable due to the use of citation sourcing and information supported by reliable contexts and links of reliable sources.
This approximate call for censorship is not only dangerous, but also threatens the integrity of peaceful public discourse.
Can contemporary Bollywood biopics do better?
In recent years, Bollywood has Strategically used biopics It is aligned with a hypermosulin and hypernational agenda of Hindutva fascism. Such publicity has worked in films as it appeals to confirm prejudice and exploit emotional urge to its people. In addition to the recurrence of words, emotions, and striking view, simplified, unilateral narratives make the correct formula to generate mass hysteria.
Over the years, Bollywood has seen an increase in films that presents highly selective and oblique illustrations of historical events. Like movies PM Narendra Modi (2019) depicts an incomplete picture of our current Prime Minister, Tashkent files (2019) Lal Bahadur Shastri suspects the official story around the death, and Kashmir files (2022) Takes a complex historical event and Stark frames the issue in terms of polarization. Sardar udham (2021) Highlights the valor of a revolutionary person, but focuses on specific elements that echo with contemporary political spirit.
Terrorism-attitude is another growing sub-style of biopic films which has been Bollywood’s favorite. While Meghna Gulzar Raji (2018) earned praise for not being excessive jingoist, it also tapped the ‘good Muslim-bad Muslim’ story and mainstream consciousness to see Pakistan as an enemy. Aditya Dhar URI: Surgical Strike (2019) A “Mahima”New“(New) India that warns”ghar me ghus ke maarenge“(We will enter your house and kill you).
This hypermakkulin, hypernationalist Bravo not only encourages unprotected aggression, but also celebrates violence in the name of patriotism. Chorus In addition, this major ride rides on the coattails of this major rhetoric that eventually hates and normalizes the nuances of divisional politics.
This, in turn, is the erosion of the main values of democracy. We can continue to look at Bollywood to do better, but if it is very afraid of crossing its boundaries or finds solitude in profits on morality, the mantra of responsibility will eventually lie completely to culture critics, journalists, historians and activists.
The last strongholds of democracy have to be speaking, even if it comes to a great personal cost.
(The author is an independent film, TV and pop culture journalist, who has been feeding the great sucking mav since 2010. This is an opinion. The idea expressed above is his own. The Quint Neither endors nor responsible for them.)
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