Right from the beginning, since the time the goons of the unemployed-kaam-nahi-karna-but-tashan-mei-hai-rehna sena also known as karni sena beat SLB and his crew in Rajasthan, i had a tremendous interest in the movie Padmavati ( who’s gender had been changed in the light of the recent developments and in wake of the spineless government that we have, to Padmaavat. This change in name reminded me of a Dilip Saheb movie where he played double role and a single black mole on the face fooled people)
Coming back to the unemployed-anti national- terrorist-sena , when i see the tv interviews of these samples-of-idiocies, another scene comes to my mind from Jolly LLB : Kaun hain ye log? Kaha se aate hain ye?
Nonetheless, i think we should concentrate on the movie now. So, since i am in Rajasthan and the extremely fragile government of my state didn’t offer any protection to any theatres screening the movie, this SLB creation has not been released in the state. So, what do i do? Well, i spoke to a guy in my office and requested him to get hold of the movie and he did! ( India is ultimately a land of jugaad!) Thanks to him, i could watch the movie and hence, the review!
The movie begins with a disclaimer. Now, had the unemployed-illiterate-sena guys known the meaning of the word ‘disclaimer ‘ they won’t have raised such a ruckus. This movie is a typical SLB creation with opulent sets, splashes of bright colours and a cinematographic delight. The acting of all the actors is worth a praise especially Ranveer Singh who makes the despicable Khilji hot and even sexy in some ways.
Deepika is as usual prim and proper and perfect in every scene, impeccably conveying all the emotions. Shahid is a seasoned actor who has proved his mettle a lot many times and does complete justice to his role as a Rajput warrior.
Now, after seeing the movie, I had a real WTF moment when I realised that SLB has glorified Rajputs so much (perhaps has gone a tad overboard with it ) that the entire Karni Sena brigade should actually be sending him thank you notes and fragrant flower bouquets! And.. wait for it.. it should actually be some muslim group that takes an offence for the animal-like portrayal of Khilji ( smelling food like a hound and eating it like a jackal) devoid of humanity, making him seem to be an uncouth, uncivilised, unethical looser who couldn’t even catch a glimpse of the woman for whom he waged a war and put everything at stake ( was he that stupid). The Rajputs should in fact be coming out of the movie halls with supercilious smug smiles because hey! Khlji couldn’t even win a one-on-one battle with the great Rajput! I mean, that lad was good for nothing!
So what was the whole agitation about? In my opinion, the politicians got a chance to create a rift between people ( for nothing ), the Karni Sena goons got their 15 minutes of fame, SLB got huge publicity, the internet got an amazing amount of memes and well, the government in a not so subtle manner clearly and unabashedly yet again declared its leanings and ideologies. And we, the people of India? Aahh , we proved ( for the nth time) to be the puppets of the right and the left wing groups and danced once again to their tunes.
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