The assertive dialogues like, “I study well”, “I wear decent clothes, sunglasses”, “If I grow and develop – why are you getting angry” does not seem to go down well with oppressors consciousness. This assertion of the film subject seems to have repelled ‘them’ so much so that ‘they’ have taken a stand against the film – its political colour as well director’s caste and audacity. As a result, Kabali seems to be raising questions, apparently, public caste consciousness, through his powerful dialogues, of the oppressors. He raises voices against the slave laborers, who want freedom at every level including for the caged birds and animals. In his rehabilitative school, he lets Muslim women hold chief positions at his education center.
Kabali, the man, follows Ambedkar and Buddhism as an emancipatory ideology. He has internalized revolutionary ideas from the brutal lifelong experiences of the leaders across the globe- particularly Che, Malcom X and Mandela. The man who has an ability to articulate in English and reads Dalit literature, though being a first generation student. Kabali is son of an indentured Tamil slave labour, probably a Dalit from Madras presidency, but radicalized person. Then why ‘they’ have shown such aggression against the film? In order to answer this question, one has to raise and answer another basic question -who is Kabali? Some of the finest dialogues take place between Rajini and his wife unlike his other films. On the other hand, it has broken many stereotypical portrayal of a typical mainstream heroine.
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On the one hand, Kabali is an ordinary gangster movie with all the ingredients of heroism, gun-fights, violence and the white skinned heroine formula. Rajini needs ‘superstar image not an ordinary serious image’ wrote another paper. Dinamani, literally, tried to scrutinize the image, content, dialogues and director’s role from upper caste/class perspective. They have suggested that the Director Ranjith has no ability to handle the ‘superstar’ as he is a ‘low class thinker cum low budget film maker’. One of the leading Tamil daily Dinamani reprimanded the film, calling it a ‘bad dream’ as it has not fulfilled ‘their’ expectations. The mass media, dominated by the privileged caste and class, have criticized the film from their ‘sophisticated’ social positions. At last they seem to be arriving at a consensus around the film being based on politics and the image of Ambedkar, even if the story line is not based on him.Īfter the release, the vengeance created by certain social groups towards the film is proliferating in abundance in the name of film review. This was followed by the intermediate caste claiming that “it is the story of migrated Tamil Udaiyar caste in Malaysia”. Then immediately, as a counter Pallars declared, “No, this is Pallar’s story”. Before the release one section of Dalits propagated that the film has Paraya politics. However, one thing is sure no film has been debated in the public domain, in recent times, as Kabali is being done, especially among the Dalits. Some sections of Dalits have celebrated the film gloriously, not for the actor but for the Dalit film-director Ranjith. Some fans, lamented, “It is not the usual rajini film”. Some have said the film is “failure”, “waste” and “boring”. Though, even now, I completely differ with what they said and did with the photograph as it was merely comparing two personalities, the film has elements, if not the entire film, that profoundly represents the oppressed against the oppressors in a way, as the actor-hero, Rajni, himself proclaimed recently which is indeed “revolutionary”.įrom the beginning, feelings’ being expressed towards the film and its making in the ‘mainstream’ media is quite mixed. They felt Rajni resembled Ambedkar in Kabali movie at least in terms of attires and eyeglasses. They replied “Rajini seems to be imitating and emulating Ambedkar in the film Kabali so through such posts we are trying to initiate a discussion on Dalit politics”’. I responded to them, “Do not compare Rajinikanth with Ambedkar”. Ambedkar, in his usual pride and impressive posture, on the one side and actor Rajnikanth on the other side. Last month, before Kabali released some of the Dalits in Tamil Nadu posted a merged picture on face book, which had Dr. Streaming Kabali (2016) Online Free.Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Telegram Share on Reddit Share on Email Watching Kabali (2016) Movie Streaming Online.
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