Trailers of upcoming movie Once upon a time Mumbai made me again wonder why do we like to glamorize some of the biggest terrorists of the world?
Recently a movie by Rakesh Ranjan Kumar, Dear Hitler, came under a lot of fire, because it was supposed to be pro Hitler, Anupam Kher who was supposed to play the lead backed from the movie citing on his twitter "Sometimes human emotions are more important than cinema." and yes, he is right. But why those human emotions don't mean a thing when we are making movies like Company and Once upon a time to glorify people as Dawood Ibrahim?
Top 4 of the world's most wanted criminals, links with Osama, mastermind of 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai, and here we have movies celebrating the life of gangsters, their threats as the era of punch lines return. People who lost their loved ones to these brutal terrorists are now supposed to whistle and applaud at the movies showing them as some stars.
And why just Once upon a time, even movies like Company, D, all these movies made them into heroes, not exactly like the terror they have been to us Indians. How many people actually feel scared to go to market places during festive season because they assume that there can be a blast or anything? How many people actually lost their families in such blasts? How can we then be OK with movies celebrating such faces of terror in our lives?
Its not just about Once upon a time, its about human emotions at times, not just making movies or money as Anupam said
Whether we glorify them or vilify them, the lives of villains make interesting films! Maybe these stories need to be told as we learn from history all the time, or should.
ReplyDeleteI agree that movies about them should be told and retold, but there is a difference when you show Osama making a style statement and that statement being "cool".
ReplyDeleteThat Osama was in Tere Bin Laden? I thought he was clearly a fake, or at least that is what the previews told me..
ReplyDeleteNo, there was no Osama, I was not even talking about Tere bin, infact even in the movie, even fake one is not really made into a stylish hero the way we seem to be doing with Companys and Once upon a times. I am just wondering that we don't see too many movies making heroes out of Hitler, Osama, then why so with Dawood and all? Because they have relations with BW? Because loss of innocent Indians lives don't mean shit, or because we are so indifferent to those families who lost their everything because of these terrorists that we have no issues in accepting Dawood as some stylish hero?
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