'It's A Film, Not A History Lesson', SS Rajamouli Gives A Kickass Reply On Criticism For RRR

It has been several months since SS Rajamouli's RRR took the world by storm. However, even today, people in the west are lauding the impeccable talent of the ace Indian filmmaker, and there's a strong Oscar buzz around the movie as well.

While most people lauded RRR, there were some who criticized the movie, especially owing to the representation of Britishers in the movie.

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Rajamouli has reacted to the criticism that RRR got.

Clarifying the same, he simply said RRR is a movie not a lesson on history. "At the beginning of the film you see the disclaimer card. Even if you miss it, it¡¯s not a history lesson. It¡¯s a story. The audience in general understands it."

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"If a British is playing the villain, they understand that I am not saying all the Britishers are villains. If my heroes are Indians, they understand that all Indians are heroes," he said as quoted by Indian Express.

This comes after a historian had slammed RRR for showing Britishers in bad light. Here's what happened.

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Robert Tombs wrote this about RRR in an article for The Spectator. For the uninitiated, he is a professor of French history at the University of Cambridge. He even said that Netflix should be ashamed of promoting the movie.

What did he say?

You can always hate on the British Empire, it is always morally correct https://t.co/TFfhJGvhGK

¡ª CEO Of Harper Row! OCTOBER 28! (@MayonettaMatty) July 20, 2022

Tombs said that the movie showing Britishers causally roaming and committing crimes is a "sign of absolute ignorance or of deliberate dishonesty". The fact that Britishers are shown as villains, he says, is "a way that quite a few countries make up heroic stories about themselves."

Not just that, he also said that, "RRR panders to the reactionary and violent Hindu nationalism that is coming to dominate Indian culture and politics, fanned by the Modi government".

Of course, desis schooled him after he said so.

Masterda Surya Sen was tortured in worst possible manner .His teeth were uprooted. His limbs were broken . His unconscious boby was hanged . But yeah RRR made British as villians . The audacity ?. These are just documented ones . There are lakhs of undocumented ones like this . https://t.co/ArczNRP7Lu pic.twitter.com/GHOUuL7Mdc

¡ª Subham. (@subhsays) July 20, 2022

Robert Tombs is an absolute bigot as his racism is reflected in this article itself where he says ¡®Indians came to him to practice their English¡¯. This is why RRRs should be made, atrocities displayed and gruesomeness of Raj ought to be publicised. https://t.co/l8wd4UpYot

¡ª Ajeet Bharti (@AjeetBhartii) July 20, 2022

In his review, he had also written, "If similar films were made slandering other nations, they would be regarded as crudely racist. Imagine a film showing twentieth-century Nigerian rulers as cannibals, or Hindu politicians burning widows alive. But we can¡¯t imagine such films, because they would not be made. Yet the British have long been fair game. Usually, we shrug this off. We have played such an important role in the world over the last few centuries that we have accumulated enemies as well as friends. In many nationalist myths, we are cast in the role of villains. It¡¯s a way that quite a few countries make up heroic stories about themselves. But that is no reason why we should accept these stories as true, or start apologising for things that did not happen."

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