Mean Politics: Baahubali Writer Has To Apolog

on Jul 24, 2015

In history, there are scenes where people fought in the name of castes and the total society was like a fight between upper castes and lower castes. Tragedy is that if anyone makes a film on those incidents now, people from one caste are accusing the other caste of tyranny and attacking the film. So, where is the chance for anyone to portray history properly?

Baahubali has triggered protests in parts in Tamil Nadu as a Dalit rights outfit has behaved like terrorists by hurling a a petrol bomb at a theatre screening the film in Tallakulam area in Madurai. They protested the usage of a word ‘pagadai’- denoting a Dalit sub-caste Sakkiliayar people, which is considered to be derogatory. Police have arrested seven members of the group for rioting, using deadly weapons and property damage. In the meanwhile writer Madhan Karky, who wrote the dialogues of the film, Apologizes to the Dalit community.

“I had used the term to denote a person who was born out of loss in a gambling game of dice. I didn’t know that it was a name of a community. In other scenes, the hero, who delivers this dialogue, is shown as someone who is against casteism and even as a child, he stands up for equality of all castes, against the norm of his nation” said Madhan Karky.

Probably the Dalit outfits would have got satisfied now, but what kind of mean politics are these to attack the freedom of cinema?