The problem is not the movie ‘Chhaava’. It is how politicians exploited the emotions it provoked. The movie did not ask for Aurangzeb’s tomb to be vandalised, politicians did.
Burhanpur district magistrate says awaiting official report of SDM and will approach ASI. But fields lining Asirgarh Fort have been site of amateur excavations for decades now.
The viral photo is unrelated to Chhaava released in February 2025. It shows a 2013 protest by the NCP Minority Division, Aurangabad, against the Bollywood film Aurangzeb.
After its second weekend, Laxman Utekar’s ‘Chhaava’ has entered the Rs 300 crore club. Some attribute this to Vicky Kaushal’s performance while others think it’s the emotional climax.
‘Chhaava’ is Vicky Kaushal’s third-highest-grosser so far. It has already surpassed ‘Sam Bahadur’ and is expected to overtake ‘Raazi’ in the coming days.
The sequel to Allu Arjun’s 2021 hit Pushpa: The Rise is receiving an overwhelming response in India and abroad. The movie’s total advance booking gross in North America has crossed $2 million.
Iran faces a choice that is larger than the immediate conduct of war. It can continue the logic of short-term escalation, or it can think in the longer historical frame.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
A billion more people like Mr. Sanghvi and India would truly be a great country. Greatness for country comes from people minding their own business and improving their own lives rather than grandiose rewriting of the past
It’s the failure of the previous generations to not give us perspective. This situation is so rotten that I have no words. We are not discussing Akbar the Great, what we are discussing is an evil person who killed a great empire by upending the policies of his ancestors.
Any person who is intolerant deserves to be deplored. Is the minority community finding it difficult to see him as a villain?
This man was a total and absolute failure: He was an intolerant orthodox loser who spent all his time and resources of the empire for a campaign which he lost. The Deccan campaign of Aurangzeb was a failure. When he died he is said to be disillusioned by all the stupidity he did in his life. THIS LOSER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF MUGHAL EMPIRE.
So the moral of the story is that intolerant losers can only bring suffering.
It is TRUE, our politics is primitive. But not only that, but also our media is primitive, our society is primitive and our democracy is primitive.
A billion more people like Mr. Sanghvi and India would truly be a great country. Greatness for country comes from people minding their own business and improving their own lives rather than grandiose rewriting of the past
It’s the failure of the previous generations to not give us perspective. This situation is so rotten that I have no words. We are not discussing Akbar the Great, what we are discussing is an evil person who killed a great empire by upending the policies of his ancestors.
Any person who is intolerant deserves to be deplored. Is the minority community finding it difficult to see him as a villain?
This man was a total and absolute failure: He was an intolerant orthodox loser who spent all his time and resources of the empire for a campaign which he lost. The Deccan campaign of Aurangzeb was a failure. When he died he is said to be disillusioned by all the stupidity he did in his life. THIS LOSER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF MUGHAL EMPIRE.
So the moral of the story is that intolerant losers can only bring suffering.