“The Unabashed Hindu-Bashing In Pa. Ranjith’s Kaala Featuring The ‘Spiritual’ Rajinikanth”, The Commune Mag, August 25, 2024:
“While Actor Rajinikanth may be hailed as a pious Hindu devotee off-screen, his on-screen choices raise suspicions over the authenticity of his devotion, particularly in films like Kaala (2018) by Pa Ranjith. Is Rajinikanth’s spirituality merely a carefully constructed mask designed to appeal to a broader audience?
Kaala is Ranjith’s most brazen passion project, in which his ideology is infused both brazenly and in covert subtexts. While the core plot concerns land rights for the urban poor living in Dharavi, the Rajinikanth-starring film is needlessly Hinduphobic from the start to the end.
While batting for the land rights of slum dwellers of Dharavi is noble, Ranjith uses this theme in Kaala to spread his misguided Hinduphobic ideology and politics. For instance, the film respects pork as haram but normalizes eating beef……”
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