Pazhassi Raja to fight it out at court

Monday, November 2, 2009, 16:21 [IST]
Pazhassi Raja
Malayalam movie Pazhassi Raja is reaping laurels all along. However success cannot be savoured without some pain, as some say. The classic movie might have to face some court trials if an organization based on Mananthavady in Wayanad district, files a suit against the makers of this historical venture.

The organization has come out in the open commenting that the facts stated about the historic personality is not true and that the movie does not proffer the true life history of the great freedom fighter. They have decided to fight the case with all the evidences possible to prove that the movie gives an incorrect rendering of the great hero.

The members of the organization have decided to file the suit today and then get it banned so that no inaccurate fact reaches the audience. However the industry fraternity is united in its decision to protect a movie which is definitely one of the finest classics in the history of Malayalam cinema. Only time will tell who would win the battle.
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Critical Malayali 08 Nov 2009 11:50 am
When a movie declares itself to be a history lesson, then it must face challenges if history if presented in a distorted way to make money. Going to court may be somewhat over the top. However if documented evidence is produced to dispel the myth that the movie is a history lesson, then it will remain public knowledge that anyone who is interested in the real history can look up. The better way to go about it would be to write a detailed book, taking up every scene in the movie that is not accurately depicted. The film makers should not have made historical claims, but let the movie run like the Bollywood megahit "Lagaan." There was no Kerala Veera Varma in Malabar District of British Raj. There is only a Pazhassi Raja College run by the Syro Malankara Catholic Church in Kannur. They are taking great pains to promote the movie. That should shed some light on the real intentions of inventing history. The church claims the Malabar Coast was known as Melinkara or Meliankara or something like that. It doesn't bother them that such a name never existed.
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