,story of keralaHistory has been created. The group opposing the success of the film is also shocked. The group tried to stop the film by giving various arguments. Whereas, the film has crossed the 100 crore mark in just nine days.” – Vishwa Samvad Kendra, a social media platform that promotes and posts content coming from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its functionaries, has this to say about the film The lines are written on Facebook. Post on Sunday.
,OrganizerIn a cover page editorial titled ‘The Kerala Story: Dangers of Denial’, the English mouthpiece of the RSS said, “…questions arise when ordinary hypocrites deny creative freedom by stalling the release of a film called ‘The Kerala Story'”. , systematically framing, exposing the problem of fraudulent conversion and human trafficking…”
• In June, 2022, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat attended a priority screening of a period piece film — Emperor Prithviraj – at a theater in central Delhi and called the film “world-class”, saying “now we are seeing history from India’s point of view”.
• In April 2022, Bhagwat in a video message announced the film ‘The Kashmir Files‘highlights the tragedy of Kashmiri Pandits.
The above examples show quite prominently how the RSS supported, influenced and inspired films to get India’s history “right”, quite literally. The RSS, with its approximately 50 affiliates and hundreds of pro-Hindu shakhas, has always been well known in India. The socio-political circle as an organization, which is “closed” in nature, while it remains an enigma to the general public.
However, over the past year, the RSS, which remained against the propaganda, has been “decolonising” India through “reform” history, bringing about reformative changes in the education system and finally influencing or motivating filmmakers to create and make films. “The journey to do has begun. A senior RSS functionary led the debate, explaining the current narrative of the RSS, how “Hindus were treated unfairly and were victims of Muslim bigotry over the years”. He called the series of examples a ‘movement’, and referred to it as “Chitra Bharati”.
getting cinema ‘right’
According to the official website of Chitra Bharati, the organization was formed for ‘Indian Chitra Sadhana’. The website further states that it has been set up to “encourage and promote filmmakers with a commitment to Indian values and ethos, to maximize efforts to incorporate Indianness into films across the world, at the local, national and international levels.” but was created to organize competitive film festivals.” To identify and train young minds with competence in various fields of film making, to create a fund to promote films with core content related to Indianness, to create awareness and skills among the public to appreciate good films .
“The cinema of India should reflect the Indian in its true form. A part of our cinema reflects our past and present but a significant part of India’s cinema seems inappropriate to Indian ethos and values. Either Indianism is absent or it is presented in a distorted and derogatory manner. A section of cinema uses this powerful medium to divide the society. Bharatiya Chitra Sadhana (BCS) aims to use the art and craft of this audio-video medium to present India in a realistic manner so as to integrate the society instead of creating rifts into different sections.
The advisory board includes eminent filmmaker-directors like Subhash Ghai, Priyadarshan Nair, Madhur Bhandarkar and Vivek Agnihotri. An analysis of the production and cast of the three films mentioned above reveals that the producers are related or associated with the ideology of the Sangh or its affiliates. Chitra Bharati’s advisory board member Agnihotri directed “The Kashmir Files”, while Chandraprakash Dwivedi, who made “Samrat Prithviraj”, has been closely associated with the RSS-affiliated Sanskar Bharati.
Sudipto Sen, director of ‘The Kerala Story’, met two senior RSS functionaries in Delhi in 2015 and traveled to Kerala, where he interviewed victims of ‘love jihad’ at an NGO, which was founded by another senior RSS functionary. Operated and managed by
not a ‘secret society’
In March this year, speaking at a session organized by Chatham House, a London-based think tank, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi described the RSS as “a secret society formed to be modeled on the Muslim Brotherhood”.
Although Gandhi did not explain why he called on the organization to hold ‘shakhas’ (morning assembly meetings of its members) inside the school ground premises or local parks, however, senior RSS functionaries analyzed the possible reasons for the protest. Did. thought leaders
There could be other reasons besides their ignorance. Earlier we never went to the common people and tried to convince them about us. For the general public, the RSS is the organization that created or gave birth to the BJP. But this is not correct. BJP was born out of Jana Sangh and it was a political movement then. RSS was formed almost 100 years ago as we will soon be celebrating our centenary. We need to reach out to the masses and inspire them to believe in our only ideology – patriotism,” said a senior RSS central committee member.
As part of its efforts to reach out and connect with people in general, the RSS has now started interacting with the media, conducting seminars and even hiring public relations firms.
Earlier the volunteers and people associated with the organization were self-aware, but now with time the rigidity has gone away, the way of working has changed. Another senior RSS member said, “We do not even consider what Rahul Gandhi said, but we need people to come out and refute his claims. There is nothing secret about the RSS, just a willingness to understand.”