Tamil Movie ‘Viswaroopam’s Release – A Ruckus or a Subaltern
rectitude?
The
great sensation created with Kamal Hasan’s Viswarropam (viswaroop) in Hindi with
protests from religious quarters and endorsed by the populist politics of Tamil
Nadu and blindly copied by the Republic of Pondicherry in banning the release
of the movie (In Pondicherry the entire bureaucracy and political leadership apparently
depend on the Gazette of Tamil Nadu Government to run their day to day
activities, a story that needs treatment in this blog separately) has drawn
certain fundamental questions for any common man who is literate and has a
least common denomination of commonsense.
1. When
the Central Board of Film Certification has cleared the movie, who else have
any legal validity to oppose the release of the movie?
a. In
the event that a movie cannot be released for creating Land & Order
disturbances, what is the way out – whether the theatre needs protection or the
Movie needs to be banned?
2. When
it is legitimate for the Religious heads to express their freedom of expression
not to release the movie, does Mr.Kamal Hasan entitle for the same measure of
freedom of expression to screen his movies
3. Is a religion so fragile to be changed its
ideology and core principles just if a movie depicts it in the way the people
of that religion does not want to?
4. When
the movie did not earmark any precondition for being an audience whether one
belongs to religion ’A’ or religion ‘B’ what if the people other religion did
not oppose the movie, what about their right of free will?
5. What
is the principle behind the decision of Tamil Nadu Government in banning the
movie?
6. When
the same religion dominated people of another country has not protested, and patronizing
the movie, what is wrong with the people of Tamil Nadu?
a. Or
do they have a different version of religion?
Some years ago I have read the following words of Antonio Gramsci:
“Subaltern Mindsets crave for real
solutions for Imaginary Problems and identify imaginary Solutions for real
Problems” – Antonio Gramsci
Whatever that is happening against the movie is not correct. now a days it happens against lot of movies. Soon the movie will be released everywhere. if i make more comments on this my life will become miserable.
ReplyDeleteAfter all it is a movie the people will talk for a week that's all. I don't know the principle behind Tamil Nadu Government.
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