Well, I am not even sure what I am going to write in my this post, but lets hope it will be something worth reading.
So I was just browsing randomly on google and came across this director who has made everyone crazy with his notable movies which shows the reality of the world we live in.
of course Nagraj Manjule. and I came across his wikipedia page, and as I scrolled down I found that he has won almost all the awards for his films, which were nominated.
and then I read some of his interviews and I had to admit, sometimes your success isnt really a something you want, it something you must because you want to make your voice loud enough so it will reach every persons heart. Piercing through all the limits society has burdened on you.
He says, "“In India, it is never enough to introduce yourself with your first name. One will always probe for your last name, because it instantly identifies you with a region, caste and community”
and I knew what does this means, what does identifying someone by his last name means, what does it mean to make our prejudices about them and something deep within us which makes them untouchables within a second before we even take efforts to know them.
If you see his films, you will notice. What has he shown to us? just the neglected villages in india, neglected people living there, living their lives, trying to break the bonds society has built around them. but its dazzling us with its harsh reality, it makes us close our eyes to the real drama which has happened in many people like his film's actors, it shows us how blunt our promises of going ahead are. There are no thousand cr sets, no beautiful seductress neither beaches or party songs to cheer of. But there is something, something you can not put you finger on, something which makes you think twice next time you think of a person because of his caste. something which reminds you the pain those people have gone through decades and decades before because of injustice of social opinions.
and I still feel so sad for a question a person had asked on Quora! and I answered it.
So I was just browsing randomly on google and came across this director who has made everyone crazy with his notable movies which shows the reality of the world we live in.
of course Nagraj Manjule. and I came across his wikipedia page, and as I scrolled down I found that he has won almost all the awards for his films, which were nominated.
and then I read some of his interviews and I had to admit, sometimes your success isnt really a something you want, it something you must because you want to make your voice loud enough so it will reach every persons heart. Piercing through all the limits society has burdened on you.
He says, "“In India, it is never enough to introduce yourself with your first name. One will always probe for your last name, because it instantly identifies you with a region, caste and community”
and I knew what does this means, what does identifying someone by his last name means, what does it mean to make our prejudices about them and something deep within us which makes them untouchables within a second before we even take efforts to know them.
If you see his films, you will notice. What has he shown to us? just the neglected villages in india, neglected people living there, living their lives, trying to break the bonds society has built around them. but its dazzling us with its harsh reality, it makes us close our eyes to the real drama which has happened in many people like his film's actors, it shows us how blunt our promises of going ahead are. There are no thousand cr sets, no beautiful seductress neither beaches or party songs to cheer of. But there is something, something you can not put you finger on, something which makes you think twice next time you think of a person because of his caste. something which reminds you the pain those people have gone through decades and decades before because of injustice of social opinions.
and I still feel so sad for a question a person had asked on Quora! and I answered it.
India is country where 50% of everything goes to people who dont deserve it. "Sairat" director Nagraj Manjule is a beneficiary of thet 50 % for obvious reasons. Should he not extend the gesture in the theatres also and follow the tradition.
Answer-First of all this movie isn't about caste I think. it is about struggle among two different social layers.
The objectification done in sairat is not only about caste, if the boy was of same caste as girl their parents would have let them marry and live happily ever after just as that?
Although his both films seems to be based on a caste based society, it does not at all depict that only because you want a equality you should run away or choose violence. Its mere representation that how much it is humiliating for a person who is almost out casted from society.
Although I am not one of the your so called "Their kind", I think you can't label some one for the sake of "Their kind of people"
A problem always has two sides, and these movies are an effort to show a side which perhaps we have ignore or didnt know. Grass is always greener on the other side.
So I dont think he needs to make it free or keep 50% price or make 50% reservations , since everyone appreciates what is good or what seems interesting enough to spend 100% money. Even the people who gets government benefit because of caste.
and thats how we still think, without appreciation for something which is so true and so pure and yet courageous we are still there. In the mud of Castes. But I guess day isnt far when we will have to accept this equality as it will be for all of us. I dont want to speak of the injustice of reservation thing, as its been seen that every thing which seems wrong has an end. Even the Caste discriminations ends and we see inter caste couples living happy married lives, even the color discriminations ends and we see a Deserving President sitting in the chair of worlds leading country.
But it takes time, and thousand people like Nagraj who has made their pain and anger; their call for equality gets justice.
There will be one day...
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