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With all due respect to the author, I don’t agree with any point put forward to demonstrate the patriarchy in the Bollywood. I was surprised that he has recommended to have reservation in the Bollywood. BTW this article is a piece of shit nothing else.
Absolutely agree.
It is ridiculous. Even on creativity now we have to put tags. It is up to the writer to pen his story. As long as no wrong information is propogated about any topic, caste etc. It’s fine.
Also, there is enough demonstration of stories of other sects in these very series.
Absolutely agree. It is ridiculous. Even on creativity now we have to put tags. It is up to the writer to pen his story. As long as no wrong information is propogated about any topic, caste etc. It’s fine.
Also, there is enough demonstration of stories of other sects in these very series.
Articles like these give me an opportunity to take PRINTouts and use them as toilet papers 🙂
What can you expect from a publishing house like The Print? Their major aim is to bring up BJP and RSS and they can go to any extent to do that. As if movies are being funded a d produced by the two entities… By the way, even Rahul Gandhi flaunted a janeu… Wasn’t he being casteist?
The problem with you Mr Critic, is that any representation of Brahmins comes as tyrannical to you. However, the same if done in favour of Muslims, Christians, Dalits etc etc, it is freedom of expression. In the current age of reservations, it is the higher caste which is being oppressed and if they are being given a platform via the movies then you start shouting. What goes around, comes around. So if it is the age of Brahmins, then so be it. Till the time there was no protest, nobody bothered about them. If in today’s scenario they have an identity in the movies, then where is the problem? I won’t bother correcting you concept of Varna, Janeu, caste etc because many people have done that. I would suggest you go through those comments and enhance your knowledge.
And we have the phenomenon of Brahmin-bashing or Brahmin-baiting in South Indian language movies- especially in Tamil and Malayalam. In Tamil movies, the Brahmin is typically shown either as a tradition-bound, effete, hand-wringing wimp or cuckold, or as a scheming industrialist, corporate schemer etc. A similar trend is seen in Malayalam movies also, where the Brahmin (earlier the Malayali Brahmin, and more recently the Tamil-speaking variety) is portrayed as a physically/ morally weak character- or a scheming corporate type, or someone who is too resistant to change. In one of the movies (made by the son of the lone BJP MLA in Kerala), the Brahmin character- showing the caste of that character in the movie was gratuitous- is finally revealed to be gay. Interestingly, these movies are made by the so-called honest-to-goodness, true-to-their-craft Dravidian/secular/minority “auteurs”. No one seems to take offense. Instead, many of these movies have gone on to gather awards also, including for their “national integration” theme. Sad.
Dear Writer you have not focused on the other side. It’s easy to portrait a Brahmin Character in any way which would be no more possible with Dalit Character, which can invite criminal actions against the Director.
Exactly. Moreover, the power is not shown as the character’s greatness in any way. More often than not, the upper caste characters are used with an intentional theme of destroying the image of brahmins, whereas the other character will show greatness of overcoming all odds, still doing great things.
This author seems to be a dalit leftist and he knows the truth of brahmins/ savarnas were and are depicted mostly as villains in Bollywood, but he is trying his best to divide the Hindu society in the name of castes to benefit his Jihadi/evangelical ideas.
Again shows that the print is engaged in pushing anti-Hindu propaganda to the masses. Mr. Shinde wouldn’t care if the protagonist were a Muslim or Christian but becomes agitated and starts ranting.
May be you don’t want to accept thit but this is real
man, y’all miss the damn point of the movies or any form of visual expression of art.
Does it really matter what the protagonists’ name is? What caste or religion or sexuality he/she/they identifies as.
This fuss means nothing but the victory of themes over substance.
No matter how diverse or how accommodating of different people the film is if the characters or the overall plot is b.s. then there’s no point in the whole brahmin centred protagonists. Moreover, I’m sure nobody literally nobody from any caste or religion did give a thought to what the character’s name is or there’s some political agenda is being put forth by using a particular name, unless this horrific baboon of a man wrote this article.
We don’t see castes in movies. We watch movies for fun or inspiration. Whether it is Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Manjhi the Mountain man or Akshay Kumar in Jolly LLB. We focus to come from theatre with positive outlook towards life & learn something good from Characters.
I want to clear some misleading information in this article:-
1. Janeu or Sacred Thread is not a Bramhin Identity but can be seen worn by a kshatriya , Vaisya also.
2. Varna is not caste it literally means Choice or Occupation. For comparison you can see the words “Var”- The female choice for marriage
“Vadhu”- The male choice of marriage
The same thing comes with Varna
3.Caste is not an Indian concept because if you see Mahabharata Everybody except Bhisma in the Kuru clan after Shantanu are half Shudra as Shantanu wife is Matsyagandhi a fisherman’s daughter. But the descendents were proclaimed Kings as they were doing the work of a king and Vidura a Shudra by birth is given a Minister role. This makes us clear that Varna is just based on occupation.
4.Coming to the movies when a Muslim wear a skull cap and a Christian wear a cross make you liberals think it is Freedom of Expression. When it comes to any freedom of expression regarding Hindus it is Bramhanical Patriarchy. This itself shows the double standards of Liberandus like this Author.
5. I am not saying that Skull cap or cross is wrong but every one have their freedom of speech, not only some people of the society.
Unsubscribing from Print for publishing such toilet paper drivel. Lazy, half-assed writing.
True. Dont know why these illetrated and zero researcher people are enrolled as journalists. Such a misinformed article. And on the top editor is also of no intellectual mind. Why these kind of articles are even published. Please do not fool people in name of journalism.
You woke ppl are so idiotic. You think brahmins want this kind of representation. Everywhere in cinema and streaming you are finding brahmin characters which are designed to be extremely unlikable and criminal. You think they want that.
In fact this is an organized attempt to malign them in popular imagination
Yeah may be because that time the term Hindu Rashtra didn’t took birth ..no one ever uttered about it .. because no one cares.. this thought was given birth by BJP leaders.. you better ask them why Amitji was ‘castless’ they will give you the answer of your question.
One baseless thought expressed in the society can change your entire nation.. I now hate the way my country is changing everyday.. somewhere famers are fighting for right in other parts Muslims are being torcherd.. then lot more . . Why this is happening..? India is Growing definitely But are We Growing? this differences of human beings on basis of casteism the inferiority superiority all are coming back.. So are we moving forward actually.. ?
The print, I’m am a brahmin but before that I’m a hindu…and it’s my open challenge to the print and Bollywood that no matter how hard you try to divide Hindus and defame brahmins but you will never ever succeed. Hindus will bounce back with more power and unity than ever before.
Very deep thinking done by the writer. A brave article in todays scenario when people are just ready to do anything in the name of religion. It is surprising how ‘divide and rule’ always work in India. Other countries even learnt to stay united with time. Hope one day this will happen here too.
“Other” countries have learnt to stay united as the majority of the population has a common religion. You can’t expect a country to have 20% muslims and expect it to be stable. When Indian demographics reaches 90% Hindu (or for that matter any religion) population, the country will progress both economically and socially. Else it’ll continue to remain a third world poverty stricken country with useful idiots like the author ranting day and night.
Too much of religion can be a big brake on economic development.
Countries like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Hong Kong etc did not become economic powerhouses because of religious homogeneity.
The basics – access to education for all, equal opportunities to all, basic infrastructure for all, work ethics, teamwork, progressive and scientific thinking – all these create firm foundation in a nation’s economic progress. If religion is truly and effectively enabling any or all of this then it makes sense to strive for religious homogeneity.
What a joke. I have a Sikh lady in my house working as nanny. She told me they have caste system in Sikhs too.
The highly celebrated religion for its non caste system who broke away from Hindus for the same reason have caste marriages in the very same new religion they created.
Why don’t you post in your opinion in some Sikh seeking paper.. clean your toilet first.
Ambedkar wrote that caste system is practised in almost all religions of India except Buddhism.
Caste is a thoroughly Indian concept. Call it Varna or whatever you will, it is a hierarchical system laced with ideas of who is superior in front of the gods and who is inferior before the gods…Despite Islam or Christianity saying that all people are equal Muslim and Christian elites in India will not intermarry with Dalit converts!
Millennia of genetic separation has conditioned Indian elites to believe that those at the bottom of the hierarchy are fit to do only physical work and sanitation work.
Haha, actually writer is playing that divide and rule game here.
I think these woke people must read the history of India to understand why emulation and glorification of attributes attached to higher caste, which strangely these movies profess to abhor, isn’t possible to do away with. When the lower caste began with their social mobility journey following the Indian Renaissance it was quite common for the upwardly mobile to adopt signs associated with higher caste such as yagopavitam. Similarly a lack of enthusiasm was shown for widow remarriage as amongst higher caste in Bengal it was not thought of as a good practise despite Widow Remarriage Act in place.
So what I am basically trying to say is that a socio-political-economic assertion of lower caste must happen but it would be foolish to assume that it shall happen in a manner conceived by some Dalit leader, even Ambedkar ji wasn’t able to effect dalit mobilization behind his ideal of non-Hindu dalit assertion as was evident from the Congress’s victory in 1946 election in reserved seats and a dismal performance of all India depressed class congress. Even Periyar used the inverted version of Ramayana showing Ravana (a pandit) as indigenous dravid against alien Rama (aryan).
So I believe writing such articles without proper understanding of dalit sentimentalities, of which I am no master, which have chances of swerving the emancipation trajectory into a completely new territory and this I believe is understood by commercial filmmakers, serves no purpose than increasing my typing speed.
I dont find a problem in representing a particular community.When other communities and minorities can be represented,people dont find an objections but once a non minority community is showcased in few films/series,it becomes a problem!
The author is an idiot and shout stop spouting nonsense. And if the print had an ounce of journalism left in them, this article wouldn’t have seen the light of the day.
Let movies and entertainment be that… Entertainment. Do not bring caste / creed in it. If the character wears the sacred thread or not, why does it matter to you. You cry about casteism being a problem and instead of ignoring caste and trying to get rid of it by not making a topic out of it, you are instigating it. “they only portray brahmins”, they portray what’s needed and what is easier. Do your job and let others do theirs.
The print is like the Swara Bhaskar of journalism, only putting out B grade products with sensational headlines to target the mentally deficient left wingers who want validation from the west.
This article is provacative, appears to be written to show writer’s hatred towards brahmins. Shame on the author, for choosing such a subject, choice of choosing secular article does not mean choosing a brahmin hateful and scorneful article.
Whatever you said may be true because even if you show the characters as Brahmins or bahujan samaj, ultimately villain is shown as brahmin or Kshatriya.
Sairat shows the villain as Patil, another movie of Nagraj Anna is Fandry , that also shows the villain as upper caste people. It doesn’t matter to most of them who are from upper caste, some even don’t consider theSe difference nowadays except in case of marriages.
Main problem with the filmmakers is that they typecast a character and this must be stopped. Do all brahmin wear janeun? Some kshatriya also use janeun.
In Maharashtra, if a person is following Varkari sampradaya, irrespective of his caste, all wear janeun. All varkaris wear a janeu. There are some castes in obc who wear janeu.
They must research about these. Not only them , but even you, before writing anything like this do a proper research.
In most of the movies,I have seen mostly surnames of Brahmins are used just for the sake of degrading,demoralising the caste showing them wicked,corrupt,even characterless without knowing their actual rituals and what path they follow.it is not done for promoting Brahmins dear.For eg. In the movie Kabir singh which got big box office collection,the villain shown had a surname Sharma to insult brahmin caste.This was not the end,the girl shown almost as a prostitute to whom Shahid demanded sex for once only was given surname Sharma just to show Bollywood’s Ill treating attitude towards our caste.Evenafter many other instances like this,Brahmins never made even one comment against this casteism.And you are blaming repeatedly one caste Brahmin which has sacrificed a lot.
.you are ,here in this article,just promoting your casteist mentallity.Even History reveals,most of the education was spread by preachers who were Brahmins to all other communities just to lift them up.please,leave this sick mentality.you are not living in 1940’s
The print needs to review articles before publishing ! I am guessing RATAN is not his “2nd” name going by his logic. People just cant get over their hatred ! …People need to block and report such useless non sensical articles !
Now that this particular series has been caught on the wrong foot, a futile attempt is being made by the author and the print to showcase that contrary to the furore the series has created by showcasing Hinduism in negative, that Bollywood celebrating a particular community. What do these scoundrels eat? Don’t they have a conscience? Why they take pleasure in battering India / Hinduism / ‘so called upper caste’ community?
P.S – I’m not a brahmin / Kshatriya
A good read, and I agree with you. Minorities and sexual minorities deserves more representation in art especially in widely accessible medium like film.
The author doesn’t understand that janeu is not just wore by Brahmin community but others too at least in South India. Stop targeting brahmin community just because it is easy to do so. Stop stereotyping them, writers and directors should be blamed for not writing convincing dalit roles. Please watch Saptapadi a MS Vishwanath telugu movie which questions the very cast system and telling the story in a convincing way even if all the cast were portrayed as brahmins and most of them themselves were brahmins in real life including the director. Truth is these people try to welcome new changes leaving irrational traditions I bet that happens in other communities. There are so many other caste who follow animal sacrifice in this 21st century, how many of today’s brahmins are following untouchability?? Kindly do your research instead of blaming one caste in favour of other. As far as I know most of the castes wear janeu while lighting pyre, I don’t know the specific reason but not all who are wearing sacred threads are brahmins. There are people from other caste too who wear them as a ritual.
Reading all these things I feel better and proud of being in this caste. Because you people can only cry on us and cannot even do a bit to stop us doing our rituals.
This brainless writer and editor has no knowledge about janeu, it is worn by people who take the responsibility of protecting and doing certain jobs from their ancestors. Like the yadavs in south India wear silver kadiyam to legs, dalits wear earrings, some stuff like that there are many such things. First get your facts right.
#Brainless writer
Now it has become a trend to target the Brahmins. Just make them the punching bags and boom !! You have become secular. But at the back of your mind you might get a sick sense of satisfaction of getting one up over the Brahmins. And you know what ? Protest and take reservations for the dalits and other sc /st. Then I think you will be happy with it. But even then you will raise hue and cry if the antagonist is made a dalit dalit. So take a brahmin, make him an antagonist and get him killed by the dalit protagonist. Then I guess it will be a blockbuster.
Take 50% reservation in the bollywood industry and even from the unreserved 50% ,take it on the pretext of getting a high mark and robbing the general people compete for a meager number of seats or in this case, roles.
Bravo …!!!
Brahmins don’t jump on you like some of the other castes when somebody accuses them, abuses them, abhores them. They either ignore or even if hurt leave it to there. No court cases, no hooliganism, no character abuse, no violent propoganda. So basically they are receptive in other words anybody can portray them anyhow willingly on the screen. cinema business thrives on extremeties, they have to show some group as menacing, scheming, goondas, ever cussing community. Naturally Brahmins pose least risk and hence are easy targets. A simple thing Ravi Ratan ji has failed to understand. In the pretext of so called atrocities done by Brahmins, reservationist propoganda is going on, now looks like film industry is on radar.
Hope this agenda is undestood and such opinions are ignored at best.
Wow…so lets showcase brahmins as liars, terrorists, goons and mafias and then spread hatered about the caste through these C grade articles. How about the time when Mr. Bachchan was shown as a good Chirstain in Amar, Akbar, Anthony and other nmovies where he played as Vijay he seem to be angry with Hindu gods.
PLease stop this nonsense we all know from where the money gets pumped into Bollywood.
Ha ha. Laughable. I am not Brahmin but the argument this author raised shows his intention to divide Hindu and rule. These people are so desperate to divide Hindus. As per his logic, if a movie or web series shows sacred thread it becomes a Brahmin then every movie or web series is a muslim because I never found a movie or web series not showing skull cap wearing man ir hijab wearing woman.
LOOLL….Now just showing janeyu became trigger point.Lets do this let’s pass a bill that make sure reservations are implemented in movie characters. Every movie or series should have representation from BCs, ST, SC. Happy now???
What ever you have expressed is your opinion .
But in my opinion bollywood people always target brahmin community because they are easy to target.
They also know that if we describe other community name or caste and defame theirs rituals it can attract atrocities act clauses by court.
On this topic I thought several times that why they choose brahmin caracter and came to this that they are easy target.
Leave the article ,but these people have always had problem with Bramhin Community !
Even I’ve heard in some YouTube videos too sayin “ab dikhata hun sharmaji ke bete ko”
Why these people have so much hatred against bramhins I don’t know !
guess that logic behind using brahmin name and caste that there is no law prohibiting abusing those surname while any caste name associated with SC/ST would attract a few cases under sc/st atrocity act
How you find this baseless topic.You always target one particular party and religious.You didn’t find any good topic.I think you take money from party or person who wanted to publish this baseless topics
True, sir.
Most of these characters are flawed and many times diabolical like Tripathi family in Mirzapur. Even when these would do good characters it will bring out diabolical nature within family like relatives opposing hero. If characters were from other communities then there would have been backlash which does not happen in case of Brahmins..so they are easy punching bags.
These Leftists find everything negative about India and it’s culture, lot of movies projects Brahmins and Banias in very negative way , then these Leftists will appreciate that as freedom of expression, but sane caste groups project as normal they will cry , best is to hang these Leftists.
So you can flaunt Christianity, islamic credentials in open, make fun of hindu elements in each and every movie, but the moment someone sports a janeu, the universe is heading in the wrong direction…. Almost every Telugu movie in the past two decades showcases Reddy/Naidu as their prominent lead… But that is fine….Almost entire bollywood us immersed in this over the top punjabi stereotype…. Which is also fine…it doesn’t matter if in most movies, Brahmins are still stereotyped as orthodox and mostly villainous, but they should never become protagnist…because then “Secularism” will be in danger. Heights of Wokeness.
Lazy. Lazy. Lazy.
With all due respect to the author, I don’t agree with any point put forward to demonstrate the patriarchy in the Bollywood. I was surprised that he has recommended to have reservation in the Bollywood. BTW this article is a piece of shit nothing else.
Absolutely agree.
It is ridiculous. Even on creativity now we have to put tags. It is up to the writer to pen his story. As long as no wrong information is propogated about any topic, caste etc. It’s fine.
Also, there is enough demonstration of stories of other sects in these very series.
Absolutely agree. It is ridiculous. Even on creativity now we have to put tags. It is up to the writer to pen his story. As long as no wrong information is propogated about any topic, caste etc. It’s fine.
Also, there is enough demonstration of stories of other sects in these very series.
Articles like these give me an opportunity to take PRINTouts and use them as toilet papers 🙂
What nonsense!
Nailed it bro
What can you expect from a publishing house like The Print? Their major aim is to bring up BJP and RSS and they can go to any extent to do that. As if movies are being funded a d produced by the two entities… By the way, even Rahul Gandhi flaunted a janeu… Wasn’t he being casteist?
The problem with you Mr Critic, is that any representation of Brahmins comes as tyrannical to you. However, the same if done in favour of Muslims, Christians, Dalits etc etc, it is freedom of expression. In the current age of reservations, it is the higher caste which is being oppressed and if they are being given a platform via the movies then you start shouting. What goes around, comes around. So if it is the age of Brahmins, then so be it. Till the time there was no protest, nobody bothered about them. If in today’s scenario they have an identity in the movies, then where is the problem? I won’t bother correcting you concept of Varna, Janeu, caste etc because many people have done that. I would suggest you go through those comments and enhance your knowledge.
And we have the phenomenon of Brahmin-bashing or Brahmin-baiting in South Indian language movies- especially in Tamil and Malayalam. In Tamil movies, the Brahmin is typically shown either as a tradition-bound, effete, hand-wringing wimp or cuckold, or as a scheming industrialist, corporate schemer etc. A similar trend is seen in Malayalam movies also, where the Brahmin (earlier the Malayali Brahmin, and more recently the Tamil-speaking variety) is portrayed as a physically/ morally weak character- or a scheming corporate type, or someone who is too resistant to change. In one of the movies (made by the son of the lone BJP MLA in Kerala), the Brahmin character- showing the caste of that character in the movie was gratuitous- is finally revealed to be gay. Interestingly, these movies are made by the so-called honest-to-goodness, true-to-their-craft Dravidian/secular/minority “auteurs”. No one seems to take offense. Instead, many of these movies have gone on to gather awards also, including for their “national integration” theme. Sad.
Dear Writer you have not focused on the other side. It’s easy to portrait a Brahmin Character in any way which would be no more possible with Dalit Character, which can invite criminal actions against the Director.
Exactly. Moreover, the power is not shown as the character’s greatness in any way. More often than not, the upper caste characters are used with an intentional theme of destroying the image of brahmins, whereas the other character will show greatness of overcoming all odds, still doing great things.
This author seems to be a dalit leftist and he knows the truth of brahmins/ savarnas were and are depicted mostly as villains in Bollywood, but he is trying his best to divide the Hindu society in the name of castes to benefit his Jihadi/evangelical ideas.
Spot on!!
why not a FIR be lodged against the writer of this article for hate speech against a particular community.
Author need a proper thinking not bias first he should take knowledge of Hindu religion there were no caste system it was divided by karm.
Security person — kshtriya
Educated person of ved– Brahmin
Business man -. Vaish
Cleaner – Shudra
They were all classified by their work.
Manusmriti has only taught you how to lodge an FIR. 😁😁
Bakwaas and garbage. Seriously print is publishing and supporting this garbage. Caste politics are gone case.
Again shows that the print is engaged in pushing anti-Hindu propaganda to the masses. Mr. Shinde wouldn’t care if the protagonist were a Muslim or Christian but becomes agitated and starts ranting.
Well said
Bullshit and baseless
May be you don’t want to accept thit but this is real
man, y’all miss the damn point of the movies or any form of visual expression of art.
Does it really matter what the protagonists’ name is? What caste or religion or sexuality he/she/they identifies as.
This fuss means nothing but the victory of themes over substance.
No matter how diverse or how accommodating of different people the film is if the characters or the overall plot is b.s. then there’s no point in the whole brahmin centred protagonists. Moreover, I’m sure nobody literally nobody from any caste or religion did give a thought to what the character’s name is or there’s some political agenda is being put forth by using a particular name, unless this horrific baboon of a man wrote this article.
We don’t see castes in movies. We watch movies for fun or inspiration. Whether it is Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Manjhi the Mountain man or Akshay Kumar in Jolly LLB. We focus to come from theatre with positive outlook towards life & learn something good from Characters.
I want to clear some misleading information in this article:-
1. Janeu or Sacred Thread is not a Bramhin Identity but can be seen worn by a kshatriya , Vaisya also.
2. Varna is not caste it literally means Choice or Occupation. For comparison you can see the words “Var”- The female choice for marriage
“Vadhu”- The male choice of marriage
The same thing comes with Varna
3.Caste is not an Indian concept because if you see Mahabharata Everybody except Bhisma in the Kuru clan after Shantanu are half Shudra as Shantanu wife is Matsyagandhi a fisherman’s daughter. But the descendents were proclaimed Kings as they were doing the work of a king and Vidura a Shudra by birth is given a Minister role. This makes us clear that Varna is just based on occupation.
4.Coming to the movies when a Muslim wear a skull cap and a Christian wear a cross make you liberals think it is Freedom of Expression. When it comes to any freedom of expression regarding Hindus it is Bramhanical Patriarchy. This itself shows the double standards of Liberandus like this Author.
5. I am not saying that Skull cap or cross is wrong but every one have their freedom of speech, not only some people of the society.
I totally agree.. bang on reply 👍
Unsubscribing from Print for publishing such toilet paper drivel. Lazy, half-assed writing.
True. Dont know why these illetrated and zero researcher people are enrolled as journalists. Such a misinformed article. And on the top editor is also of no intellectual mind. Why these kind of articles are even published. Please do not fool people in name of journalism.
You woke ppl are so idiotic. You think brahmins want this kind of representation. Everywhere in cinema and streaming you are finding brahmin characters which are designed to be extremely unlikable and criminal. You think they want that.
In fact this is an organized attempt to malign them in popular imagination
Yeah may be because that time the term Hindu Rashtra didn’t took birth ..no one ever uttered about it .. because no one cares.. this thought was given birth by BJP leaders.. you better ask them why Amitji was ‘castless’ they will give you the answer of your question.
One baseless thought expressed in the society can change your entire nation.. I now hate the way my country is changing everyday.. somewhere famers are fighting for right in other parts Muslims are being torcherd.. then lot more . . Why this is happening..? India is Growing definitely But are We Growing? this differences of human beings on basis of casteism the inferiority superiority all are coming back.. So are we moving forward actually.. ?
This is news…. seriously
The print, I’m am a brahmin but before that I’m a hindu…and it’s my open challenge to the print and Bollywood that no matter how hard you try to divide Hindus and defame brahmins but you will never ever succeed. Hindus will bounce back with more power and unity than ever before.
Very deep thinking done by the writer. A brave article in todays scenario when people are just ready to do anything in the name of religion. It is surprising how ‘divide and rule’ always work in India. Other countries even learnt to stay united with time. Hope one day this will happen here too.
“Other” countries have learnt to stay united as the majority of the population has a common religion. You can’t expect a country to have 20% muslims and expect it to be stable. When Indian demographics reaches 90% Hindu (or for that matter any religion) population, the country will progress both economically and socially. Else it’ll continue to remain a third world poverty stricken country with useful idiots like the author ranting day and night.
Too much of religion can be a big brake on economic development.
Countries like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Hong Kong etc did not become economic powerhouses because of religious homogeneity.
The basics – access to education for all, equal opportunities to all, basic infrastructure for all, work ethics, teamwork, progressive and scientific thinking – all these create firm foundation in a nation’s economic progress. If religion is truly and effectively enabling any or all of this then it makes sense to strive for religious homogeneity.
What a joke. I have a Sikh lady in my house working as nanny. She told me they have caste system in Sikhs too.
The highly celebrated religion for its non caste system who broke away from Hindus for the same reason have caste marriages in the very same new religion they created.
Why don’t you post in your opinion in some Sikh seeking paper.. clean your toilet first.
Ambedkar wrote that caste system is practised in almost all religions of India except Buddhism.
Caste is a thoroughly Indian concept. Call it Varna or whatever you will, it is a hierarchical system laced with ideas of who is superior in front of the gods and who is inferior before the gods…Despite Islam or Christianity saying that all people are equal Muslim and Christian elites in India will not intermarry with Dalit converts!
Millennia of genetic separation has conditioned Indian elites to believe that those at the bottom of the hierarchy are fit to do only physical work and sanitation work.
Haha, actually writer is playing that divide and rule game here.
I think these woke people must read the history of India to understand why emulation and glorification of attributes attached to higher caste, which strangely these movies profess to abhor, isn’t possible to do away with. When the lower caste began with their social mobility journey following the Indian Renaissance it was quite common for the upwardly mobile to adopt signs associated with higher caste such as yagopavitam. Similarly a lack of enthusiasm was shown for widow remarriage as amongst higher caste in Bengal it was not thought of as a good practise despite Widow Remarriage Act in place.
So what I am basically trying to say is that a socio-political-economic assertion of lower caste must happen but it would be foolish to assume that it shall happen in a manner conceived by some Dalit leader, even Ambedkar ji wasn’t able to effect dalit mobilization behind his ideal of non-Hindu dalit assertion as was evident from the Congress’s victory in 1946 election in reserved seats and a dismal performance of all India depressed class congress. Even Periyar used the inverted version of Ramayana showing Ravana (a pandit) as indigenous dravid against alien Rama (aryan).
So I believe writing such articles without proper understanding of dalit sentimentalities, of which I am no master, which have chances of swerving the emancipation trajectory into a completely new territory and this I believe is understood by commercial filmmakers, serves no purpose than increasing my typing speed.
BAKWAAS ARTICLE. DESERVE NO COMMENT FURTHER.
This garbage should not be published here. Author is totally ignorant about Indian culture.
The author is a lodhu who wants to divide Hindus. It’s clearly visible in his rants.
I dont find a problem in representing a particular community.When other communities and minorities can be represented,people dont find an objections but once a non minority community is showcased in few films/series,it becomes a problem!
This garbage should have been published here. Author is totally ignorant about Indian culture.
Arre bhai kuch toh research karle yeh phele
You see the moment you are a hindu
Irrespective of your caste you need to wear a poonal or janeau as you North Indians call it to do the antim sanskar (this is with respect to tandav)
Bhai itna bhi research nahi kar pa te ho toh journalism kyu karte ho yaar
Lol..Looks like author have issues with Brahmins..what a disgusting article to target Brahmins.
The author is an idiot and shout stop spouting nonsense. And if the print had an ounce of journalism left in them, this article wouldn’t have seen the light of the day.
Let movies and entertainment be that… Entertainment. Do not bring caste / creed in it. If the character wears the sacred thread or not, why does it matter to you. You cry about casteism being a problem and instead of ignoring caste and trying to get rid of it by not making a topic out of it, you are instigating it. “they only portray brahmins”, they portray what’s needed and what is easier. Do your job and let others do theirs.
The print is like the Swara Bhaskar of journalism, only putting out B grade products with sensational headlines to target the mentally deficient left wingers who want validation from the west.
And what we can expect from The Print…bhakk bsdk🖕🖕
This article is provacative, appears to be written to show writer’s hatred towards brahmins. Shame on the author, for choosing such a subject, choice of choosing secular article does not mean choosing a brahmin hateful and scorneful article.
Whatever you said may be true because even if you show the characters as Brahmins or bahujan samaj, ultimately villain is shown as brahmin or Kshatriya.
Sairat shows the villain as Patil, another movie of Nagraj Anna is Fandry , that also shows the villain as upper caste people. It doesn’t matter to most of them who are from upper caste, some even don’t consider theSe difference nowadays except in case of marriages.
Main problem with the filmmakers is that they typecast a character and this must be stopped. Do all brahmin wear janeun? Some kshatriya also use janeun.
In Maharashtra, if a person is following Varkari sampradaya, irrespective of his caste, all wear janeun. All varkaris wear a janeu. There are some castes in obc who wear janeu.
They must research about these. Not only them , but even you, before writing anything like this do a proper research.
A good rant about Brahmins that go on and on yet in this whole article nowhere it is mentioned how are they projected most of the times.
Your closed leftist mind.
In most of the movies,I have seen mostly surnames of Brahmins are used just for the sake of degrading,demoralising the caste showing them wicked,corrupt,even characterless without knowing their actual rituals and what path they follow.it is not done for promoting Brahmins dear.For eg. In the movie Kabir singh which got big box office collection,the villain shown had a surname Sharma to insult brahmin caste.This was not the end,the girl shown almost as a prostitute to whom Shahid demanded sex for once only was given surname Sharma just to show Bollywood’s Ill treating attitude towards our caste.Evenafter many other instances like this,Brahmins never made even one comment against this casteism.And you are blaming repeatedly one caste Brahmin which has sacrificed a lot.
.you are ,here in this article,just promoting your casteist mentallity.Even History reveals,most of the education was spread by preachers who were Brahmins to all other communities just to lift them up.please,leave this sick mentality.you are not living in 1940’s
The print needs to review articles before publishing ! I am guessing RATAN is not his “2nd” name going by his logic. People just cant get over their hatred ! …People need to block and report such useless non sensical articles !
Now that this particular series has been caught on the wrong foot, a futile attempt is being made by the author and the print to showcase that contrary to the furore the series has created by showcasing Hinduism in negative, that Bollywood celebrating a particular community. What do these scoundrels eat? Don’t they have a conscience? Why they take pleasure in battering India / Hinduism / ‘so called upper caste’ community?
P.S – I’m not a brahmin / Kshatriya
Seriously! You want entertainment to be on caste lines! Utter rubbish…get your head out of wherever it is…
It’s not Yash Johar
It’s Yash Chopra who directed Deewaar
A good read, and I agree with you. Minorities and sexual minorities deserves more representation in art especially in widely accessible medium like film.
The writer has no problem if the hero flaunts a Muslim or Christian identity. What a hypocrite!
The author doesn’t understand that janeu is not just wore by Brahmin community but others too at least in South India. Stop targeting brahmin community just because it is easy to do so. Stop stereotyping them, writers and directors should be blamed for not writing convincing dalit roles. Please watch Saptapadi a MS Vishwanath telugu movie which questions the very cast system and telling the story in a convincing way even if all the cast were portrayed as brahmins and most of them themselves were brahmins in real life including the director. Truth is these people try to welcome new changes leaving irrational traditions I bet that happens in other communities. There are so many other caste who follow animal sacrifice in this 21st century, how many of today’s brahmins are following untouchability?? Kindly do your research instead of blaming one caste in favour of other. As far as I know most of the castes wear janeu while lighting pyre, I don’t know the specific reason but not all who are wearing sacred threads are brahmins. There are people from other caste too who wear them as a ritual.
Reading all these things I feel better and proud of being in this caste. Because you people can only cry on us and cannot even do a bit to stop us doing our rituals.
This brainless writer and editor has no knowledge about janeu, it is worn by people who take the responsibility of protecting and doing certain jobs from their ancestors. Like the yadavs in south India wear silver kadiyam to legs, dalits wear earrings, some stuff like that there are many such things. First get your facts right.
#Brainless writer
Now it has become a trend to target the Brahmins. Just make them the punching bags and boom !! You have become secular. But at the back of your mind you might get a sick sense of satisfaction of getting one up over the Brahmins. And you know what ? Protest and take reservations for the dalits and other sc /st. Then I think you will be happy with it. But even then you will raise hue and cry if the antagonist is made a dalit dalit. So take a brahmin, make him an antagonist and get him killed by the dalit protagonist. Then I guess it will be a blockbuster.
Take 50% reservation in the bollywood industry and even from the unreserved 50% ,take it on the pretext of getting a high mark and robbing the general people compete for a meager number of seats or in this case, roles.
Bravo …!!!
Brahmins don’t jump on you like some of the other castes when somebody accuses them, abuses them, abhores them. They either ignore or even if hurt leave it to there. No court cases, no hooliganism, no character abuse, no violent propoganda. So basically they are receptive in other words anybody can portray them anyhow willingly on the screen. cinema business thrives on extremeties, they have to show some group as menacing, scheming, goondas, ever cussing community. Naturally Brahmins pose least risk and hence are easy targets. A simple thing Ravi Ratan ji has failed to understand. In the pretext of so called atrocities done by Brahmins, reservationist propoganda is going on, now looks like film industry is on radar.
Hope this agenda is undestood and such opinions are ignored at best.
Wow…so lets showcase brahmins as liars, terrorists, goons and mafias and then spread hatered about the caste through these C grade articles. How about the time when Mr. Bachchan was shown as a good Chirstain in Amar, Akbar, Anthony and other nmovies where he played as Vijay he seem to be angry with Hindu gods.
PLease stop this nonsense we all know from where the money gets pumped into Bollywood.
The author has spewed some venom on Brahmins. I do not find anything offending as much as this author has expressed, journalism has gone to dogs.
Ha ha. Laughable. I am not Brahmin but the argument this author raised shows his intention to divide Hindu and rule. These people are so desperate to divide Hindus. As per his logic, if a movie or web series shows sacred thread it becomes a Brahmin then every movie or web series is a muslim because I never found a movie or web series not showing skull cap wearing man ir hijab wearing woman.
LOOLL….Now just showing janeyu became trigger point.Lets do this let’s pass a bill that make sure reservations are implemented in movie characters. Every movie or series should have representation from BCs, ST, SC. Happy now???
What ever you have expressed is your opinion .
But in my opinion bollywood people always target brahmin community because they are easy to target.
They also know that if we describe other community name or caste and defame theirs rituals it can attract atrocities act clauses by court.
On this topic I thought several times that why they choose brahmin caracter and came to this that they are easy target.
Leave the article ,but these people have always had problem with Bramhin Community !
Even I’ve heard in some YouTube videos too sayin “ab dikhata hun sharmaji ke bete ko”
Why these people have so much hatred against bramhins I don’t know !
guess that logic behind using brahmin name and caste that there is no law prohibiting abusing those surname while any caste name associated with SC/ST would attract a few cases under sc/st atrocity act
How you find this baseless topic.You always target one particular party and religious.You didn’t find any good topic.I think you take money from party or person who wanted to publish this baseless topics
True, sir.
Most of these characters are flawed and many times diabolical like Tripathi family in Mirzapur. Even when these would do good characters it will bring out diabolical nature within family like relatives opposing hero. If characters were from other communities then there would have been backlash which does not happen in case of Brahmins..so they are easy punching bags.
Why rant so much? Ha ha.
These Leftists find everything negative about India and it’s culture, lot of movies projects Brahmins and Banias in very negative way , then these Leftists will appreciate that as freedom of expression, but sane caste groups project as normal they will cry , best is to hang these Leftists.
So you can flaunt Christianity, islamic credentials in open, make fun of hindu elements in each and every movie, but the moment someone sports a janeu, the universe is heading in the wrong direction…. Almost every Telugu movie in the past two decades showcases Reddy/Naidu as their prominent lead… But that is fine….Almost entire bollywood us immersed in this over the top punjabi stereotype…. Which is also fine…it doesn’t matter if in most movies, Brahmins are still stereotyped as orthodox and mostly villainous, but they should never become protagnist…because then “Secularism” will be in danger. Heights of Wokeness.