Shamshera: Another ‘not-so-subtle’ strive of Bollywood to gasoline anti-Hindu sentiments falls flat at the box office, ends up as a big catastrophe
No one is unaware of the subtly propagated anti-Hindu sentiment and Hinduphobia in Bollywood films thru the one-sided, flawed, and unreal memories conveyed in the movies. The equal tactic has been used as soon as once more in the movie Shamshera, in which the antagonist has been portrayed with the aid of the filmmakers as a brutal barbarian who is additionally a pious Hindu.
Despite customary big-budget flops and boycotts, Bollywood’s center of attention on anti-Hindu testimonies has now not changed. Bollywood has as soon as once more delivered a villain who is portrayed as a religious Hindu and a ruthless barbarian. Sanjay Dutt seems as a villain in Ranbir Kapoor’s historic drama ‘Shamshera.’ He is introduced as a traitor to India who additionally takes place to be a police officer. He is proven in the movie as a religious Hindu with a Shikha and a Tripund Teeka. His persona is named Shudh Singh, a brutal authoritarian conventional who has imprisoned and enslaved a warrior tribe.
Shamshera is a movie produced by way of Yash Raj Films (YRF). Recently, the identical agency delivered two high-profile flops in Jayeshbhai Jordaar and Samrat Prithviraj. Shamshera has Ranbir Kapoor as the fundamental protagonist, who performs a dacoit father and consequently his son after his death. In each personas, he is a bandit. To apprehend him, the British carry Sanjay Dutt as Shudh Singh, a villain with a religious Hindu look.
With much less than Rs 21 crore in two days’ well worth of field workplace revenue, Shamshera, a film with a big price range of Rs a hundred and fifty crore, has decisively been rejected by way of fans, placing YRF underneath a lot of strain. The film’s script has additionally been panned with the aid of reviewers for its vulnerable content material with many announcing the storyline has no point. Audience comments is that Ranbir Kapoor does now not fit the picture of a dacoit, and neither does his voice. The screenplay was once no longer nicely praised with the aid of critics too.
The disguised Hinduphobia
However, although the movie has been of course rejected by way of a extensive audience, we want to recognize the Hinduphobia that is being promoted via such films the place the villain is selectively proven as a dedicated Hindu who is so pious and barbaric at the identical time. There are endless films the place villains are the ones who have a stretched Red of Saffron Teeka on their brow or talk about a crime whilst performing a sacred Hindu ritual like Aarti.
It is pointless to dwell on Bollywood’s fixation with Hinduphobia and depiction of Hindus as evil creatures. It is now not a new phenomenon either, as one can have in mind videos even from the 70s, like Suhaag, which depicts a Hindu priest as a assassin and a Hindu temple as the scene of the crime, growing poor preconceptions about Hindus.