It is a disgrace that, effectively over a century later, even making a movie on the combat in opposition to caste oppression needs to be thought-about ‘courageous.’ And a much bigger disgrace that regardless of being a mediocre movie at finest, that is probably the one one we’ll get on such an vital a part of our historical past.
Hopefully, the protests in opposition to the movie have already made a few of us learn up on Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule.
The film looks like a chapter in a college historical past textbook that touches upon completely different components of the historic personalities’ lives in disconnected paragraphs. It isn’t like you do not see the logic. However you bounce from one occasion in Jyotiba and Savitribai’s lives to the subsequent with none try at a connecting line.
It isn’t that I did not study something new from the movie about their lives. I bought a quick backstory in regards to the lack of help at house. I understood how they managed the funds. However, this nonetheless gave a really feel of scratching the floor. Anybody who is aware of even slightly extra, in regards to the historical past of the time, than I do is more likely to know no less than this a lot.
And, after all, the movie had an enormous hole. You simply do not get the extent of the atrocities dedicated by Brahmins underneath the garb of Hinduism. This may very well be owing to the censor board cuts. Or it was a name on the writing stage. For what has reached the display screen, although, it assumes the viewer already is aware of the diploma of injustice.
It would not assist that the performances are nearly par. Whereas Pratik Gandhi pulls it off as a social reformer, Patralekha is extra distracting than the rest. From a bizarre accent to the botoxed lips to a brand new sari in each scene, it simply would not really feel like she belongs within the milieu. Not one of the different forged members have a large enough function to be memorable, apart from Jyotiba repeatedly thanking them for his or her involvement and help. We hear, we do not get to see.
And Phule, the movie, most likely had one of many worst endings, for an in any other case first rate movie, I’ve seen recently. I’m wondering what Phule, the person, must say about it. Anyway, it is not like we should always watch movies like these to study historical past. However, because the movie repeats just a few occasions—we should study from historical past and never repeat it. So, even when the movie prompts a few of us to learn up on Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule, their supporters, and their work, the movie has succeeded. Hopefully, the protests in opposition to the movie have already made that occur.
– meeta, part of the viewers
