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INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
The movie Ramayana is more than meets the eye.
Ravana is portrayed as the oppressed.
Rama appears weak.
Sita fights in the forest.
And this is far from Valmiki’s Ramayana.
Why these creative choices?
Who really stands behind this ₹4,000 crore project?
Let's follow the money.
1997.
Namit Malhotra founded Prime Focus.
It grew into a global VFX empire.
Its international arm is DNEG.
2020.
A2R Holdings enters the picture.
A holding company controlled by Namit.
Today, it owns 53.04% of Prime Focus.
2024.
Now the money trail reaches Abu Dhabi.
United Al Saqer Group.
A UAE conglomerate.
Invest ~1,889 Crore into DNEG's Luxembourg entity.
2025.
A European Company named Novator Capital also became a major investor.
With a 14.29% stake in Prime Focus.
2026.
Union Bank of India enters.
A ₹200 crore corporate guarantee is approved for a production loan for Part One.
Now examine the commercial network.
Namit Malhotra.
Prime Focus Studios.
Yash.
Monster Mind Creations.
DNEG.
International VFX.
Sony Pictures.
Global distribution.
Dharma Productions.
North India distribution.
A ₹4,000 crore global enterprise.
Two films.
Multiple corporate layers.
Mumbai.
Luxembourg.
Abu Dhabi.
Europe.
Now comes the real question.
Who decides the narrative?
You must have got your answer.
Watch Ramayana as the cinema, if you want.
Not as a substitute for scripture.
Ranbir's Rama is a cinematic character, not Prabhu Shri Ram.
Sai Pallavi's Sita is an adaptation, not Maa Sita.
Yash's Ravana is a reinterpretation, not the monstrous Ravana.
Cinema is not scriptural authority.
And the filmmakers should not present their interpretation as Valmiki's Ramayana.
In my next post, I'll investigate something far more sinister.
The politics behind this Ramayana.
A version shaped to suit the politics of today's India.
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
Celebrating Diwali at the airport 🪔 Life of a chess player 😄
Happy Diwali!
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
There's some scintillating Japanese anime content on Insta being made on our Itihasas and Puranas by youngsters which is a treat to watch for their respect for the original content and their attention to detail. I did rather watch that and encourage those honest voices. xitter.cf/aravind/status/2119108…
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
The narrative on X should be 50 crore Indians rising out of poverty , End of physical naxalism , PM celebrating Diwali in the ground zero of Naxals- Bastar , and Defence minister in the Chicken neck of Bagdogra and Siliguri .
Instead of discussing these three very important events - Rajnath Singh in Siliguri corridor sends a strong msg to the .5 front in India , the third front opened in Bangladesh and also Pakistan .
By Modiji visiting Bastar he is directly telling the deep state aiding naxals that ‘it’s done bro’.
Children celebrating Diwali in hidima’s village is a living example of defeat of evil . Let us celebrate this - ignore those still pushing that so called Ramayan Movie - kill their reach , don’t engage with any tweets and let market forces decide the rest .
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
BIG EXPOSE 🚨
Nearly 150 Chinese WeChat streamers landed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and spent an entire day livestreaming the city's slums while passing them off as locations in INDIA.
Their unusual presence raised suspicions among locals, who started investigating the operation.
The biggest revelation? This entire operation was exposed by Prothom Alo, Bangladesh's largest newspaper.
This wasn't random misinformation. It raises serious questions about a coordinated attempt to damage India's global image through manufactured propaganda. 🇮🇳
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
So, all the accused in the Kanhaiya Lal murder case went to the Rajasthan High Court and challenged the NIA court's decision to frame charges against them under the UAPA.
Rajasthan High Court has now dismissed their petitions. The UAPA charges against all accused will remain in place, and the trial will continue under the anti-terror law.
Kanhaiya Lal was brutally murdered in Udaipur in 2022. He was beheaded inside his shop, and the entire incident was recorded on camera by the attackers and later shared on social media.
It has been more than 4 years, yet Justice is still awaited.
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
This parody will never go out of style. It will return every Holi and Diwali, and every other Hindu occasion when the LeLis try to send the community on a guilt trip!
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
दिवाली खुशियो का ईद है
होली खुशियों का रमज़ान है
नवरात्रि खुशियों का क्रिस्मस है
गाय खुशियों का बकरी है
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
Aha, the Italian claims 'great damage' to India's democracy since 2014. In 1980, the Indira-Rajiv government awarded a massive contract to build the Thal Vaishet fertiliser plant to Ottavio Quattrocchi's Snamprogetti. This was such an egregious breach of norms that the World Bank withdrew from the project, & stopped funding fertiliser projects in India. So Quattrocchi's company was given SIXTY more fertiliser projects in the next 7 years (severely damaging India's fertiliser sector).
And of course, the same friend of Sonia's was the key conduit for the illegal commissions for the Bofors howitzer deal. She shielded him for 20 years (because the money probably was hers). Then, in 2006 (when she was illegally running India's government) the secret crores held in a London bank account and frozen by India's courts, were quietly unfrozen at her government's behest and withdrawn (ie, stolen in broad daylight by her buddy) before India's Supreme Court could intervene.
In 2009, while the general election was underway, she appointed her private sycophant, Navin Chawla, as Chief Election Commissioner. Chawla had been deemed "unfit to hold any public office" by the Shah Commission in 1978 for his "authoritarian and callous" actions as Secretary to Delhi's LG during the notorious Emergency (25/6/1975-Jan 1977). The outgoing CEC strongly opposed Chawla's appointment, telling the president in a 93-page report that Chawla was openly partisan in favour of Sonia's Congress party. But she appointed him nonetheless (first as EC in 2005, them CEC in the middle of the 2009 general election) -- because he had personally ingratiated himself with Sonia by writing a fawning biography of Mother Teresa (the Albanian Catholic from Skopje, Macedonia). And this is just the beginning of Sonia Maino's subversion of Bharat's democracy. That she still leads the CPP and was the longest-serving president of the Nehruvian Congress is the biggest scandal of our democracy!
@narendramodi @AmitShah @amitmalviya @pradip103 @tuhins @swapan55 @sanjeevsanyal @jsaideepak @TVMohandasPai @smritiirani
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
कृपया बताएँ:
१. क्या आप सहमत हैं कि भगवान राम स्वयं की पत्नी और राक्षसी शूर्पणखा द्वारा सीता के रूप धारण करने पर भेद करने में अक्षम थे?
२. क्या शूर्पणखा की नाक काटने का प्रकरण लक्ष्मण ने अकारण किया और सीता के हरण का कारण बना?
३. क्या रावण सर्वहारा की क्रांति कर रहा था जिसके साथ देवता अत्याचार और अन्याय कर रहे थे?
४. क्या रावण एक नारीवादी राजा था जो दासी के लिए भी स्टैंड लिया करता था?
५. क्या राम को स्वयंवर में जाने से पूर्व सीता को देख कर कन्फर्म करना था कि वो इस योग्य हैं या नहीं? और क्या लक्ष्मण के पात्र द्वारा, इसी संदर्भ में, विश्वामित्र के समक्ष चिरकुटों वाले आचरण से आप सहमत हैं?
६. क्या भगवान राम और लक्ष्मण, ताड़का-सुबाहु-खर-दूषण से भाग-भाग कर बचते हुए युद्ध करते थे और एक चाकू और साधारण तीर से उनका वध कर देते थे?
७. क्या हमें रामायण की आलोचना केवल इसलिए नहीं करनी चाहिए क्योंकि किसी ने तो बनाया है, या इसलिए करनी चाहिए कि यदि विदेश तक अपनी संस्कृति को पहुँचाना है तो उसमें रावण को महान, पीड़ित, सर्वहारा का रक्षक की छवि को हटा कर, राम को उत्कृष्ट मानव के रूप दिखाना चाहिए, न कि उल्टा?
८. क्या माता सीता लक्ष्मण को इस कारण डाँट सकती हैं कि उन्होंने शूर्पणखा का नाक काट कर अनुचित कर दिया?
९. क्या रामायण में सीता हरण की क्रूरता के बदले उन्हें पुष्पक में ऐसे दिखाया जाना चाहिए कि वो अपनी इच्छा से बैठ गई और रावण उनसे बीस फीट दूर ही रहा करता था?
१०. क्या हम एक ही रामायण में एक जगह बाल्मीकि को ढूँढें, दूसरी जगह तुलसी को और तीसरी जगह नमित मल्होत्रा को?
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रामायण एक ऐसी कथा है जो सदियों से, कई वैरिएशन के साथ, लिखी-बोली-बनाई जा रही है। पर हाँ, रावण को ‘ग्रे’ पात्र बनाना, मूर्खता है। नमित मल्होत्रा और नीतीश तिवारी ने रावण को ग्रे करने के चक्कर में राम-लक्ष्मण-सीता को भी ग्रे कर दिया है। चायनीज यिन-येंग चल रहा है।
नमित मल्होत्रा ने यह फिल्म बना कर कोई उपकार नहीं किया है, वो इस लहर की सवारी कर रहा है कि कुछ पैसे बन जाएँ। वह कोई साधु नहीं है। रावण एक नीच, अधम, बलात्कारी राक्षस था, न कि नारीवादी, समाजवादी राजा।
इतने वैरिएशन के बाद भी कुछ चीजें स्थापित सत्य हैं: राम मर्यादा पुरुषोत्तम हैं। रावण पाप के चरम पर बैठा है।
यदि आपको यह रावण स्वीकार्य है तो इसका उत्तर दीजिए कि एक गीतकार, संगीतज्ञ, आयुर्वेदाचार्य, वेदज्ञ महात्मा को मारने के लिए क्या ईश्वर को अवतार लेना पड़ता?
#RamayanaMovie #RamayanaReview
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
1. Ranbeef's Ramayan has turned a mega box office disaster given its budget.
2. Paid reviews, increased marketing efforts, freebies, corporate bookings is making things worse.
Who knows this was the real plan?
3. Brahmastra of Ranbeef also followed same strategy - invest heavy in marketing and corporate bookings. Call it the greatest blockbuster ever. Then silently sell Dharma Productions showing heavy losses.
4. We @GemsOfBollywood had declared right when film was announced that we oppose it. And for exactly the same reasons, all influencers who refuse to sell themselves are condemning the Islamic- leftist Ravanayana.
5. Today and tomorrow, Ranbeef remains more famous as Big Beef Guy than a stone-faced Ram- pretender.
6. Demise of Urduwood is inevitable. Gems of Bollywood is proud to have been part of this Yajna against Kaalnemis without compromise.
इदं न मम।
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
“A family whose history is inseparable from modern India” … What’re the rest of us??? Foreigners? This is what happens when you get cockneys like Hannah, who covered the fashion beat in London & the ladyboy beat in Bangkok to cover Indian politics.
In a rare interview with Guardian's @HannahEP, Sonia Gandhi reflects on Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, the personal cost of political life and marrying into a family whose history is inseparable from modern India.
theguardian.com/world/2026/n…
Obviously. The book was meant to absolve her immediate family from all of their misdemeanors.
In her memoir - @SoniaGandhi puts the blame of emergency on the late sanjay gandhi - According to Gandhi, the family was split on the decision. Rajiv was against the move, telling his mother to wait for the next election, but her younger son Sanjay pushed for it, arguing at one family dinner that the opposition would destroy his mother and telling her, “They must be stopped.” Sanjay’s forceful influence over his mother was a great source of public controversy at the time. Gandhi recalls that it inflamed tensions within the family, too; Rajiv attempted to confront his mother, but she refused to listen. “Keeping Sanjay in check could have prevented much of the damage that followed,”
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
Some Lavanya from South Delhi was slapped, dragged and detained by Delhi Police while trying to attack the Parliament of India and all journalist went Hawww, how can they be so brutal. @AmitShah should resign.
Here a poor #Tribal activist commits suicidal on camera and names the state CM and conversion forces and there is pin drop silence from both Media and @Cockroachisback #NishaBhagat won’t become fake #Dalit like Payal Tadvi or Rohith Vemula.
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Ramayana is in the news so Audrey is “loosely translating” with her lurid takes again…
Valmiki never wrote "harem pet" or "furniture cover." Just as he never said Sita calls Rama a “misogynist pig.”
Here's what the text says.
On the living deer, Aranya Kanda 3.43.16:
अन्तःपुरविभूषार्थो मृग एष भविष्यति
antaḥpura-vibhūṣārtho mṛga eṣa bhaviṣyati
"This deer will be an ornament of the inner palace." Not “harem.” Sita is talking about after the exile, when they're back in Ayodhya. The word is vibhūṣā, ornament. It's a marvel to bring home to Bharata and the queen mothers. It isn't a "pet," and it isn't a harem plaything. We also know that Rama never took another wife, let alone kept a harem.
On the slain deer, 3.43.19:
शष्पबृस्यां विनीतायामिच्छाम्यहमुपासितुम्
śaṣpa-bṛsyāṃ vinītāyām icchāmy aham upāsitum
"I wish to sit on its golden skin, spread over a seat of tender grass." A bṛsī is an ascetic's grass seat. She's a forest-dweller in exile, picturing herself sitting beside Rama. That isn't upholstery or a "furniture cover." Rama even pictures the same scene himself a few verses later (3.43.34).
So "harem pet" and "furniture cover" aren't translations. Each one picks the most lurid or trivial reading available so that Sita comes off as decadent and vain. The text doesn't support either.
We've seen this before. In 2018 Truschke "loosely translated" Sita at the agnipariksha as calling Rama a "misogynist pig." Robert Goldman, the translator she cited, disowned it.
She starts from a Sanskrit word, takes the most loaded English you can find, and presents it as scholarship. That's academic malpractice.
And it’s a pattern.
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
This smart ass Skin Doctor has always mocked Modi govt's decisions.
✅️ His idol Shaikh Hasina has taken shelter in India since August 2024.
✅️ Its almost 5 years and the Modi govt has not given an extra dime to Punjab govt to enable it to fund freebies.
✅️ 4.5 years later #PFI is still banned.
✅️ Not every time you have to fight with machine guns.
But this @theskindoctor13 thinks he is more smarter than Modi, Amit Shah and Ajit Doval.
INDIRA ഇന്ദിര 🇮🇳 retweeted
To those saying don’t oppose Ramayan , who will make such movies again
Has Ramayan survived because of Bollywood? It has survived via centuries with Ramlila, with the various classical dances bringing it alive , with various Ramayans, with the unforgotten Ram janam bhumi , with bhajans and with our greeting - Ram Ram
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#WATCH | Agartala: Tipra Motha Party founder Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma says, "...Before the partition of India, we had decided that we would become an integral part of India. At that time, the Government of India should have pushed for the inclusion of parts of the Kingdom of Tripura, which the Maharaja and the Rajmata were subsequently ready to merge with India. But the Government of India, for whatever reason, did not include parts of East Pakistan, which today could have been very beneficial for our state, our Northeast, and our country. Today, we are landlocked... Another chance came in 1971, when 90,000 Pakistani soldiers were in India's custody; we could have negotiated at that time. But we did not do it even then. Opportunities like this do not come repeatedly, and we lost this opportunity. This is a historical blunder. I do not want to politically blame anyone, but we must all accept the fact that today the Northeast is geographically isolated because the Government of India did not press hard enough to acquire territories that should have been part of India...An inseparable, historical part of ours was separated, and now it should be rejoined. Why should we only talk about Pakistan-occupied Kashmir? A lot has happened in our East as well, which was wrong."
#WATCH | Delhi: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey says, "...My view is that the time has come not just to reclaim Pakistan-occupied Kashmir from Pakistan. It is also time to reclaim the territories that Nehru ji forcibly handed over, whether it is Noakhali, Chittagong Port or Sylhet."
"Nehru ji was desperate to become Prime Minister. India became independent in 1947, but he did not become Prime Minister on August 15, 1947. He became Prime Minister on September 2, 1946. As soon as he became Prime Minister, the Muslim League started Direct Action. In October, on October 15, 1946, a massive massacre of Hindus took place in Noakhali, a Hindu-majority area. Around 10,000 Hindus were killed in a single day. But he did not go there as Prime Minister. He remained concerned about how the Muslim League could become part of his government. The three areas, Noakhali, Sylhet and Chittagong Port, were part of the Tipra Kingdom. Tripura was earlier known as Tipra. Its king, Bir Bikram Singh, was continuously fighting with Nehru, questioning how he could negotiate over his territory. He would ask: How can you hand over Noakhali to Pakistan? How can you hold a referendum on Sylhet? How can you hold a referendum on Chittagong? This is my kingdom. I will decide whether it remains part of India, Pakistan or becomes an independent state... Sardar Patel sent the Army, and Tripura became part of India in October 1948. Maharani Kanchan Prabha signed the Instrument of Accession in October 1948, following which Tripura became part of India...It was precisely because Chittagong Port went away that the development of the entire Northeast was halted. If the Northeast appears backwards today, if it faces problems, if we are unable to fully utilise its mines, minerals and gas, and if the region still feels disconnected, it is only because we no longer have that port. This is the time to reclaim Chittagong, Noakhali and Sylhet as well."