Thanks to the makers, director and the entire unit of this film who worked day and night to complete this film in less than a month. If I talk about Bollywood, the number one banner and top makers here, be it Karan Johar or Aditya Chopra or anyone else, do not have the courage to take a total risk at the box office and make a film that is not a film but a revolution in Hindi cinema. Before independence, to make the country a caste system and a Babu, the British government changed history in such a way that those who sacrificed everything for the country were called terrorists or robbers and the robber Mughals were made heroes. The Mughal period was called the Golden Period in the books taught to students in our schools and these robber Mughals were called Akbar the Great on the lines of heroes, but the Marathas who fought the Mughals and the British and the Hindu rulers of the South, even the Sikh Gurus were presented as villains in the history books. I would like to heartily salute filmmaker Manpreet Singh Dhami for making this film on the education system created by the British government, which is releasing in select theatres this week.
To be honest, this is a film that not only criticises the history syllabus, but also the books written by leftist historians who portray Mughal rulers as heroes and Hindu rulers and Sikh Gurus who fought against the Mughals as villains. Today, when the Modi government, which is leading the country in bringing about change, has been in power for a long time, why have these school books, which present wrong history, not been changed till date due to vote bank politics?
Go and watch this film, made with complete honesty, which presents a direct challenge to the colonial and leftist views forcibly imposed on Indian history, with your children so that they too can see that they are being taught wrong history in school.
While watching this film, Chanakya’s words came to my mind, “The nation that does not remember its history, does not take long to become history itself” and forced me to think what is the government’s compulsion that the history books are not being changed.
Story Plot
Nitin is a physics teacher, his wife is a housewife and his only daughter studies in a famous expensive school. The turn in the story comes when Nitin sees that the history being taught to his daughter in the school books is completely wrong. The robber Mughal rulers are being shown as heroes. Then Nitin starts a campaign to change this system. Does Nitin’s campaign succeed or not???
While watching this film, you come to know that India’s history has been very prosperous and glorious, it is so ancient when civilizations like Greece, Rome, Maya or Egypt did not exist. The principles of Upanishad, science, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, music and drama were created in India. In such a situation, there is a question in the film that which is the India that Vasco da Gama discovered in 1498?
Why don’t the leaders sitting in the then government now expose this conspiratorial history, which seems necessary, and now Manpreet Singh Dhami has done the same work in his film “His Story of Itihaas”.
Overall
This is a film that exposes not only the history syllabus but also the leftist education system.
All the characters of the film have been brought alive on screen by the actors with their strong acting, Yogendra Tikku’s acting is unmatched, Ankul Vikal Kisha Arora and Akanksha Pandey all fit in their characters. Direction is in accordance with the screenplay.
