Thackeray

• Watched the above movie at PVR, Vega City Mall.
• This is nothing but an effort to whitewash the image of Bal Thackeray.
• Like Sanju movie which whitewashed the character of Sanjay Dutt.
• But certain scenes in history have been replicated well enough.
• I will list those below:
• Belgaum agitation
• Agitation for Single Maharashtra (including Bombay city)
• Agitation against South Indians
• Agitation for employment of Maharashtrians in jobs at Mumbai and in other places of Maharashtra.
• Elimination of Communists as a force in Mumbai.
• Aligning with Congress for the same purpose (defeating Communists in elections).
• War with Janata Party post 1977 elections.
• Ram Temple agitation.
• Bombay Bomb blasts.
• Riots with the collusion of Police where mobs of Shiv Sena were systematically ignored.
• Then supposedly Balasaheb went to pacify the crowds as he himself answers in court whether he has a "hand in riots". He says he has "foot" because he himself visited riot affected areas by foot to pacify the "murderous mobs" who were like monsters created by him and his organisation and had 'tasted blood' and only he could pacify them.
• He is shown offering his house/ room to Muslim people for "Namaz" or prayer. That maybe true I think, maybe it may have happened once if not more times.
• Plot to kill him and those who came to kill him were systematically tortured by police that is shown.
• Shiv Sena won the elections in 1995 and formed State Govt in Maharashtra that is shown.
• He is also giving speeches in Muslim areas that when India-Pakistan cricket match happens not to burst crackers if Pakistan wins.
• He also admits that he wants to Hitler not only of Mumbai but of Maharshtra and India.
• And then when elections victory comes, Manohar Joshi becomes CM.
• It is not shown why Thackeray did not become CM. Though he wanted to be Hitler..
• But the director dwells on it and then ends the movie with "To be Continued" in the end.
• Now will there be a sequel showing Thackeray old age.
• I do not think so. Maybe he did not want to show "the End". But even if sequel is there I feel there is nothing much to show. Most of the history that has been shown which matters.
• Also dumping of oil on cricket pitches and digging up to prevent India Pakistan matches is shown.
• Also meeting with Dilip Vegsarkar and Javed Miandad is shown where he rejects cricket with Pakistan.
• Guess present BJP Govt is following in footsteps of Balasaheb Thackeray which is bad.