Instruction Given By Teacher:
All students:
All students:
Here is attached a brief interview of Javed Akhtar.
There
are some rumours about A R Rahman to give music in an Iranian film on
Mohmad Paigambar. It is not permitted under Quran to portray Mohmad
Paigambar in painting or moving picture. If A R Rahman is involved in
such film, it may hurt religious sensibilities of Indian Muslims and so
he is threatened that there may be Fatwa against him.
Secondly,
there is a film being planned on the life of Tipu Sultan - a Muslim
ruler of Mysore. It is rumoured that Rajnikant will play the role of
Tipu Sultan. This has hurt religious sensibilities of Hindus. It is also
belived that Tipu was against Tamils and so no Tamil should play any
role in the biopic on Tipu.
Well, the majority
exerts their likeness and prejudices over the minorities and in the
process construct a 'culture'. The said culture is appropriate for the
majority and so most of them believe it to be moral / right / true way
of living life. Later on, such way of life is 'naturalised' and
justified by mythical stories of brave people belonging to the majority.
Literary
writers, by and large, are part of the process. At times, literary
writers pose a threat or protest to such process. Such protests of past
are not visible today ad history rarely takes notice of it. But we can
read them as they happen while we are living. Observing contemporary
times with spectacles of historical sense makes us aware of such
process.
Here is an example in this small
interview. Javed Akhtar writes that he would rethink several times to
write a scene written in Sholay.
What is that scene? Why would he rethink before writing of such scenes?
What do you comprehend from the interview?
Here my response:
Tipu sultan was a never national hero and he never will be one for the
people of karala.He was a mass murderer. Apotheosis him as a national
hero is insulting the people who agonize at his hand .Tipu sultan is
totally unbearable.
Thnak u..
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