Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis attended a special screening of Vicky Kaushal’s “Chhaava” in Mumbai.
After watching the historical drama, CM Fadnavis praised the makers for sharing the true tale of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj through “Chhaava”.
He shared, “Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj knew 11 different languages. He was a poet, and a writer as well. From the ‘Chhaava’ movie, many people in India have come to know more about Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and I thank the ‘Chhaava’ crew members and the whole team. They perfectly portrayed the history in the film. I thank producers, directors, distributors, actors, and actresses. This team brought Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj into our lives. Thanks to Aditi Tatkare for the wonderful arrangements.”
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis stated that people who wrote the history were not just to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, but “Chhaava” has managed to shed light on his valiant life.
“Those who wrote history did a lot of injustice to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, but through this movie, his valour, bravery, cleverness, intelligence, knowledge, all these aspects of his life are coming in front of the public. And the way Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj continuously protected Swarajya after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, his sacrifice is coming in front of the people through this. I would like to congratulate the producers of this film and the entire team”, the CM added.
Along with the Chief Minister, the special screening of “Chhaava” was also attended by several other political leaders and dignitaries.
Helmed by director Laxman Utekar, “Chhaava” is a cinematic adaptation of the Marathi novel “Chhava” by Shivaji Sawant. The film features Vicky Kaushal as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, along with Rashmika Mandanna as Maharani Yesubai, Akshaye Khanna as Mughal Shahenshah Aurangzeb, Ashutosh Rana as Sarsenapati Hambirao Mohite, Divya Dutta as Soyarabai, Diana Penty as Zinat-un-Nissa Begum and Neil Bhoopalam as Prince Akbar.
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis says “Those who wrote history did a lot of injustice to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, …”. Let me ask: Did anyone prevent aggrieved Hindus to become and earn national and international acclaim for critical research and documentation in history, religion, epigraphy, languages, archeology, architectural analysis etc.? I don’t think so.
Most of the time aggrieved Hindus have shown disproportionate interest in astrology, numerology, miracle mongering and unbelievable attributes, unsubstantiated claims in science and allergy to critically verify and verifiably use contributions by “rishi/munis” and others and howling against people who do.
Even today, if we want to study in critical manner any philosophical, logical, mathematical, scientific, epigraphical, linguistic contribution from our country with proper references and sources, we invariably end up with studies mostly from western scholars, with relatively far fewer contributions from native people. With the result that, when it comes to history, Hindu origin historians become anti-Hindu to ingratiate themselves with biased non-Hindu erstwhile colonial and international academia ganging, as history by nature is susceptible to emotions.
Let us start work in this direction while there is chance.