Khilji aka Ranveer was greeted with loud cheer & whistles on screen. Entire film is about Khilji though it shows negative sides of him but there is lot of pomp & show going along with which ends up glorifying him..
he has been given the most powerful role making sure Khilji remains at centre stage. ... Be assured now Khilji is a hero and we will see his masks, attire, dress every where from school to halloween in India. Bhansali non sense as usual loud & brash: focus on Jauhar for over 30 minutes with no reasoning why ladies resorted to it . Bang your head on Rajputi usool one after another even when enemy is after your ars with illegitimate means .. over all a lot of tamasha with no story..
The central question that I answer is --- what did Modiji and Yogiji gained by ensuring that movie gets unbanned and multiplexes do show the movies. Pls note that -- defacto ban on this movie in Gujarat was against the wish of Modiji and was due to leftover of strength of VHP. Modiji did his best to threaten VHP leaders and volunteers to cow down, but some VHP volunteers persisted. (In Gujarat, Karni Sena is only front --- its all VHP volunteers who provide strength to it). And look the power of BIF ---- just a few days before Padmavati was going to be released, they could convince a Magistrate in Rajasthan to issue a non bailable warrant against Togadiaji, and also convince Rajasthan HomeMin to send 15 constables, 3 PI and one ACP all the way from Rasjathan to Gujarat to arrest Togadiaji !! (plan was to arrest him at 1am and take him out of Gujarat before 6am ) !!!
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Ban in Rajasthan and MP was also due to raw strength of Karni Sena and VHP. In UP, Yogiji made sure that policemen threaten VHP and Karni Sena to the extent that they dont raise heads and movie becomes successful
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So pls explain what good or bad gains did Modiji and Yogiji made by ensuring that movie gets unbanned as well as gets shown.
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That should be the CENTRAL topic of THIS thread. Not history.
As per history ...
In fact, Devagiri had neglected the most basic commodity required to survive a siege – food. The towering fort perched on top of a mountain had a capacity to store a three year supply, but when Khilji attacked, the defenders were shocked to discover the thousands of sacks stored in the granary contained not grain but salt. After a couple of battles, Rama Deva threw in the towel and emptied his treasury for Khilji. The invader took away:
Sounds like corruption to me. That warehouse officers too money from treasury equal to price of grain and bought only salt and pocketed the price difference. So why was corruption higher on sides of kings and lesser on invader side?
{quote] Needless to say, the avaricious Khilji wasn’t going to stay satisfied for long. He was a mere freebooter with just 8000 troops when he defeated Devagiri. ... [/Quote]
So with mere 8000 troops, he defeated several times more army and population which was even more.
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The invaders had FAR LESS money and their military spending was also FAR LESS in round one. It is evident from the huge money that was spent in making forts and castles. And invaders in round one had LESSER troops - lesser than troops of local kings and not even a fraction of TOTAL population.
The invaders won round one because of better weapons, which was due to lesser corruption and better mechanical and metallurgical skills. And later using loot and taxes, they raised more troops. But that was round two. In round one, invaders had less money and less troops. As one postor asked, why couldnt Indian kings back then could make the weapons which invaders made. eg Why couldnt Indian kings make the cannons which Babur had? And same question comes when British came --- Clive had better cannons than Siraj ud Daulla and other Hindu or Muslims kings back then. And in 1857 they had better rifles. So again question is --- why couldnt Indian kings make cannons and rifles that British could make? I have posted my answers on my SM profile. A short summary is --- invaders like Khilaji, Babur had procedure of "gathering" i.e. all men must come at one place at one time once a week, and agenda is controlled by locally person chosen by consensus. And British had procedure of Jury System and election. This improved manufacturing and weapon manufacturing. A long explanation is OST and is on my SM profile
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RSS-historians cite "lack of unity" as one and only one reason and rss-historians refuse to accept lack of gathering or lack of JurySys as reason. Thats becuase they want to promote the thought that "all must unite under RSS and put with corruption of rss-leaders and not question". RSS-historians dont want people to know or think that administrative procedures like gathering or JurySys play important role in manufacturing and they insist on lack of unity as only factor.
But imo, this "lack of unity" is nonsense factor. All Hindus did unite under Chakravarti Samrat Raja Hemchandra (we should NOT use name Hemu). And all Hindus also united under Baji Rao 1. Despite this Hemachandra could defeat Moguls only after taking help from Afghans and Shia, and getting Portugese cannons. And when Moguls , Uzbeks etc regrouped, and Portugese cannons got worn out, Raja Hemachandra lost. Despite huge treasure, Hemchandra was NOT able to make cannons , bows etc as good as Moguls forget Portugese. And Baji Rao 1 too could win ONLY after he got help from Shia and he got French cannons. All throughout, Maratha themselves could not make cannons that would match Moguls forget French or British. Only Sikhs had some limited success. But not comparable to British.
So kings of back in 1100 AD did NOT bring administrative changes need to improve mechanical, metallurgical skills of local Indians. And later Baji Rao 1 too decided to depend on French cannons rather than bring administrative changes that will increase skills of Indian engineers. And today, apex leaders promote FDI in defense rather than bring administrative changes that will increase skills of Indian engineers. More things change, more they remain same.
Solution is to bring ADMINISTRATIVE changes that will increase skills. And ONLY activists may bring these changes, Leaders will not.
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But pls focus on question --- what exactly are gains Modiji and Yogiji extracted by not blocking this movie?