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Satya Prakash's POV



Cinema : voice of pluralistic society , must be protected.

( In context of appointment of Mr.Gajendra Chauhan as director of FTII, Pune)

Art and culture must evolve from within the very structure of any society. If the society is multicultural, multi-linguistic,  multi-ethnic , the art, literature and cinema are always excelling and spectacular. The inherent strength of art and culture lies in society only.

India is a country of multicultural, multi-religious, multi-linguistic and that's why, art, culture and cinema of India is of various tastes and that is the beauty of aesthetic sense of people of India and it shows how Indians are so unified in the nature of diversity and pluralistic but this beautiful garden of various flowers is being crushed to the highest degree of denigration of art and culture in case of various educational institutes,Film Academic Institution . As a result, great menace  is being made before the huge democratic and secular people of India.

Cinema is at peril. What sort of Cinema should be made, will be given signal by nationalist saffron Film Censor Board that has begun making obstacle for Filmmakers who manage money from financiers at various terms and conditions and make film but they face wrath of Censor Board.

Cinema and its educational institutes like FTII, Pune is at peril  because of an actor who has been installed as director who is incompetent and has not qualified enough by degree or by cherished experience.    And he is none other than Mr.Gajendra Chauhan who was made a mythological character of Yudhishthir of Epic text " MAHABHARAT". After that he acted in filthy and botched C-grade movies like " KHULI KHILDKI"etc. Gajendra Chauhan can not represent Indian Cinema abroad because of juandiced nationalist approach of observing Art and Culture.He can not showcase of Indian Cinema in any film institute and cannot face brilliant interaction in the discussion on art and culture particularly on film. Such a person cannot educationally inspire the students of FTII and that's why brouhaha  against Chauhan is going on. The protest of students , actors, technicians and their film makers has been countered by various saffron leaders of present nationalist and rightist Government of India

RSS ( A Right wing Hindu outfit) has supported Government's decision of making Gajendra Director of FTII ( film and Telivision Institute of India),Pune by dubbing the protest as " The protest of Hinduism" because Mr.Gajendra Chauhan had acted as mythological character of Yodhishthir in TV Serial "Mahabharat".
A new idiom of simile is being manufactured by RSS that the persons who oppose Gajendra Chauhan, oppose Hindu religion.".It's a ridiculous statement delivered by ruling saffron family that has wrongly compared his FTII Director with an epic character. This simile produces a series of ethical, moral and enquiring questions about "The King of Religion" or Yudhishthir, the eldest brother of "Pandva". Yudhishthir represents feudal monarchy and he and his another four younger brothers have one famous wife " Draupadi". That means, Draupadi is having five husbands and keeps satisfying cupidity of five men routine wise. What will this woman be dubbed ? Answer is very simple "SLAVE". This is a heinous prejudice worldview against woman.

 This spells out a question about Saffron family's idealism about Yudhisther who keeps losing villages after villages, states, precious property, nation and at last, he loses his wife in gambling .

Can betting wife in gambling be termed as the highest degree of moral ethics designed by Yudhishther, ignoring resistance
 of his younger brothers around "Bet-game".?

 How can Yudhisther be a moral character of Hindu ? Such a person like Yudhisther can not be a role model of secular and progressive Hindu who live in democracy .

Can a girl of today be wife of five husbands ?

Can a girl be made nude in the court of Kaurava ?

Yudhishthir can not be a moral-guiding inspiring crusader of Hindu people of today, who are very progressive and secular .

RSS has placed wrong simile for Gajendra Chauhan. But this is not the fault of RSS because it has such a numerous persons in its nationalist museum. Strong monarchy crushes the protest but at last monarchy is crushed by people and people make government through democracy. And we live in democracy. People's voice reckon a lot.

Film maker cum great actor Anupam Kher who is very much close to Saffron family, has registered his strong protest against Gajendra Chauhan whose past record of acting has not been so spectacular except one and that is TV Serial "Mahabharat" produced by B R CHOPRA. The young Bollywood super star Ranbir Kapoor and the most famous Bollywood super star Salman Khan have gone against his new avatar of director of FTII ,suggesting him to step down. 

Many voices of protest are being unheard by Government , shows that it does not believe in multiculturalism that has been an inherent strength of Indian society.

In Mahabharat TV Serial, Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza had given dialogues to all the mythical characters and that is the strength of composite culture of India. Do not saffronize the academic institutions to suppress the voice of dissent that is the beauty of Secular India.