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Films against popular opinion

posted 11 years ago by beyalora
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I'm glad films with stories such as these are being released. it's very important that as a nation (whatever that means anymore), we have avenues for highlighting the lives and ideas of people that fought against the tide. Shahid Azmi was a personal example of what violence can do to a person and how he chose to deal with it.

Hopefully, it will also inspire people to make films on people like Irom Sharmila, Binayak Sen, Soni Sori (and Lingaram Kodopi), Kashmiri lawyer Parvez Imroz, etc.

[–] unknownbroadway 11 years ago

Are you crazy?

What do you understand about a man who goes for training in a militancy camp? What do you think is his purpose for that?

God knows how many people he would have killed had he gone completely 100% psycho in the unknown future and unloaded on a crowd. Just see the lives of the families of the people who got gunned down while waiting for a train on CST station.

The only good militant is a dead militant.

Controversial movies sell, that's basically the reason for this movie. It's playing in favour of the market. It doesn't change the fact that the world has one less jihadi nutcase to worry about.

btw, I would not disrespect Irom Sharmila by placing her in this list of murderers.

[–] beyalora 10 years ago

Did you even watch the same film as I did? Or did you make up your one dimensional mind the moment he joined a militant camp? If you're discrediting him for doing so, then where is the credit due to him for leaving that camp?

Also, why don't more films ask the question WHY some people take the drastic step of joining such camps?

All movies sell. But I'm pretty sure the motive behind this film wasn't box office collections. If controversial movies sell more, then why are people still making brainless yawn fests like Jai Ho, Chennai Express, etc....?

Regarding Irom Sharmila, I would love watching an Indian film which shows what the so called brave Indian Paramilitary Forces did to the people in the Malom Massacre. Or any other film detailing the Kunan Poshpora rapes in Kashmir...