Nagraj
Manjule's second film , Sairat has been the talk of the town in its
state, Maharashtra and also in various international film festivals,
where though it hasnt won awards, its been well received. But as in case
of his earlier film Fandry, Sairat has become a tool in the hands of
the left journos to again harp the cliches about ''caste injustice'' of
''evil Hinudism''.
For those who don't know (spoiler alert), Fandry is a story of a pig catcher's son fascinated with an upper caste richer girl who sees his naive dreams brutally crashing down in the end when he sees that the object of his affection also is among the people who mock him and his family and Sairat (spoiler alert) is about the doomed love story between a fisherman's son and the village headman's daughter for which they have to pay the ultimate price in the end.
For those who don't know (spoiler alert), Fandry is a story of a pig catcher's son fascinated with an upper caste richer girl who sees his naive dreams brutally crashing down in the end when he sees that the object of his affection also is among the people who mock him and his family and Sairat (spoiler alert) is about the doomed love story between a fisherman's son and the village headman's daughter for which they have to pay the ultimate price in the end.
While writing the review for both films, the
reviewers or the writers writing about it to try to give us a 'bigger'
picture never forgot to go hamming about how Indian society and culture
is all about caste discrimination , indirectly implying that this
largest peninsula in the world is the most unjust place on it, and if
India is to be a place for being fit to live in, all it has to do is to
abandon its way of living and copy paste progressive culture.
Before we go forward, a few questions:-
How many bleeding heart liberals here or in the west (that loves to lecture about equality)
:- have ever invited a janitor, sweeper, plumber or hawker to their plush houses for lunch , supper or dinner?
:- have sent their kids to play with working class kids? Or ever showed love to working class kids? Sponsored their education or guided them?
:- have married or have got their children married not higher up but lower in the social strata?
:- have themselves gone to a working class house or lived a few days in a working class neighbourhood?
Hint: The number does not exceed zero for all of the above.Because social differences are in favour of the seculibs, not against. They hate the people they claim to fight for and will make sure that they never rise in status.
Social discrimination and stratification exists all over the world. And more so among abrahamic religions claiming to be classless and egalitarian. Its just that the Hindus are honest about it. By no way any kind of discrimination based on caste can be supported , but it is totally unfair to single out just India for it.
Both the male protagonists in Fandry and Sairat belong to the depressed/lower castes, but they also are dirt poor in comparison to the girl they love. That plays as big a part in the discrimination they face. Had they even been from the upper castes, their poverty would have made them as hated by others if they ever tried to love a richer girl. The main topic in these two films is discrimination. It is not limited to caste discrimination. It also encompasses discrimination by the strong on the weak, by the society strongly rigged against the have nots. And what people miss in many cases is that these two films also show that naive dreams and love fail, in absence of any solid foundation.
Noone will ever make a film on how brahmins today are one of the most disadvantaged communities in India, forced to do menial jobs in many cases, or about the struggles of a poor or middle class family in upper caste who have zero benefits accorded to them by the state regardless of even if they are struggling to make their ends meet. Noo e will ever make a film about bloggers being hacked to death in Bangladesh for writing against Islamists, about women not being allowed to drive and public beheadings in Saudi Arabia. Ni feminist will talk about womens rights to enter the mosque, no journalist in India will ever write about the murder mayhem in communist ruled states or sex abuse in catholic churches. Because these are not the ''right'' kind or type of victims that the liberals want.
Mr Manjule deserves all the praise he is getting for highlighting the problems everyone conveniently wants to ignore, be it discrimination or honour killings, but why do we forget that all political parties who claim to stand for "freedom" and against ''fascism'' or ''communal forces'' have their leaders use caste and language blatantly for polarising votes and are most happy to look away and even stall the investigation of crimes like honour killings. No amount of debate will suffice till this is taken care of.
:- have ever invited a janitor, sweeper, plumber or hawker to their plush houses for lunch , supper or dinner?
:- have sent their kids to play with working class kids? Or ever showed love to working class kids? Sponsored their education or guided them?
:- have married or have got their children married not higher up but lower in the social strata?
:- have themselves gone to a working class house or lived a few days in a working class neighbourhood?
Hint: The number does not exceed zero for all of the above.Because social differences are in favour of the seculibs, not against. They hate the people they claim to fight for and will make sure that they never rise in status.
Social discrimination and stratification exists all over the world. And more so among abrahamic religions claiming to be classless and egalitarian. Its just that the Hindus are honest about it. By no way any kind of discrimination based on caste can be supported , but it is totally unfair to single out just India for it.
Both the male protagonists in Fandry and Sairat belong to the depressed/lower castes, but they also are dirt poor in comparison to the girl they love. That plays as big a part in the discrimination they face. Had they even been from the upper castes, their poverty would have made them as hated by others if they ever tried to love a richer girl. The main topic in these two films is discrimination. It is not limited to caste discrimination. It also encompasses discrimination by the strong on the weak, by the society strongly rigged against the have nots. And what people miss in many cases is that these two films also show that naive dreams and love fail, in absence of any solid foundation.
Noone will ever make a film on how brahmins today are one of the most disadvantaged communities in India, forced to do menial jobs in many cases, or about the struggles of a poor or middle class family in upper caste who have zero benefits accorded to them by the state regardless of even if they are struggling to make their ends meet. Noo e will ever make a film about bloggers being hacked to death in Bangladesh for writing against Islamists, about women not being allowed to drive and public beheadings in Saudi Arabia. Ni feminist will talk about womens rights to enter the mosque, no journalist in India will ever write about the murder mayhem in communist ruled states or sex abuse in catholic churches. Because these are not the ''right'' kind or type of victims that the liberals want.
Mr Manjule deserves all the praise he is getting for highlighting the problems everyone conveniently wants to ignore, be it discrimination or honour killings, but why do we forget that all political parties who claim to stand for "freedom" and against ''fascism'' or ''communal forces'' have their leaders use caste and language blatantly for polarising votes and are most happy to look away and even stall the investigation of crimes like honour killings. No amount of debate will suffice till this is taken care of.
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