Padmavat

Padmavat
This movie was watched at Carnival Cinemas, Rockline mall.

• What I found that there is nothing in the movie to protest about.
• If there is anything to protest it is the depiction of Sati or jauhar where women willingly give themselves to the fire.
• Surely life cannot be that bad that you will prefer to die.
• I will say no community has been disrespected in the movie.
• They have not depicted the Muslims as Muslims but they have depicted them as "Khiljis"
• And Hindus are not represented as Hindus but as "Rajputs"
• It could be that they are unique subset of a larger set.
• In that sense there is nothing to protest about.
• Also what we learn that Padmavati the princess is from Sinhala kingdom which means she is Sri Lankan.
• How can a princess from another culture who became queen accept such a barbaric method to die which is Jauhar or Sati offering oneself to the fire.
• I mean I understand the Ancient Iranians/ Persians were fire worshipers and Hindus can trace their roots to those invaders from Central Asia who are known as Aryans.
• But this is limit.
• Fire worshipping cannot be stretched to such a limit that you will offer yourself to the naked flame.
• In this sense this movie is worth protesting about.
• I have heard that dying by burning is one of the worst ways to die.
• Another worst way to die is getting trampled by elephant.
• Now women are offering to die rather than stay alive.
• This is madness and wrong.
• In this sense, Alauddin Khilji appears more human as he wanted to keep the continuity of life.
• But this so called "Rajput pride" got the better of them when they committed suicide.
• Also the Brahmin priest was banished and that was disrespectful I feel.
• The Rajput pride made the Brahmin priest thrown out of the Kingdom.
• In a war human rights violation happen all the time and that has been shown in the movie.
• Like Khilji enters the palace unarmed but is not hurt as he is guest.
• But Khilji takes the King as hostage and asks Padmavati for visit.
• Then the Queen Padmavati gets the Brahmin priest killed by Khilji as a precondition for her visit and under the guise of taking her servant women, infitrates Delhi with hundreds of Rajputs and attacks Khilji forces on the Day of Jumma.
• Then Khilji returns with bigger force and during single combat with the Rajput king, his forces attack the Rajput king from behind and gets him killed.
• Inspite of his efforts, he cannot save Queen Padmavati who happily walks to her death alongwith hundreds of women, pregnant women and children included.
• I will say this single fact is regressive and there is no happy ending.
• I must confess I cried during the ending. 
• There is no way to stop the tears.
• The tears came automatically to me.
• The last scene was too emotional and in that sense the director did a tremendous job.
• What is the reason for the tears? the director has exploited a loophole and all humans will have this.
• It is the fact that the alpha male (Khilji) cannot meet the alpha female(Padmavati).
• It is like two ends which can never meet.
• Never ending saga where banks of two rivers never meet or two sides of same coin which can never meet.
• So close yet so far.
• Life is so precious. Why waste it for so called pride.
• Khili more human and rich than you can imagine and still you reject that.
• Aim of humans should be to remove differences and unite.
• And this is the anti thesis to that and so the tears flow naturally.
• But my final point would be that the filmmaker  would have conceptualised this story long back maybe several years back or decades ago.
• Now after too much effort and deliberations whether it would be possible or not he has managed to make it.
• Why try to nip all his effort in bud.
• Surely humans we can do better.
• We need to give space to the talented people to make movies they want.
• Why we try to muzzle them. that is wrong.