Kalki 2898 AD was released last week in theatres and is doing well at the Box office. The film has collected 750 Cr gross till now and emerges as an All-time top 4 South Indian biggest grosser.
Kalki 2898 AD is an inspirational film from Hindu Ithihasas. The Mahabharat episodes in the movie are hurting Hindu pandits as showing Karna is bigger than Arjuna. The pandits started expressing themselves now. Hindu pandits are questioning that Nag Ashwin did not read Mahabharata completely he seems to be influenced by movies that show Karna as the greatest. But in Mahabharata, it’s clearly said that Karna is the main reason for Kurukshetra to happen. Pandits are saying if they put bhima or arjuna instead of karna it would be right opt. The Hindu pandits feel when you are taking Ithihasas show them correctly as it was a history by adding fiction to it and changing the history is killing our history.
Pandit Radha Mohan Das has expressed the same before, and now Nanduri Srinivas also said the same. Doing films on our lithiasis is a great thought, as this generation will get interested in knowing about our history. But if we portray fictional elements, they will believe that is the only correct version, which is not good.
Nag Ashwin addresses in this interview that Karna is his favourite character in the Mahabharata, and he always felt unfinished to him. A warrior like that needed redemption and needed the last chapter. He also said both Aswaththama and Karna were on the wrong side at that time. In this last chapter, he wants them to fight for the other side, for good. Nag Ashwin’s intentions are fine, but if the film directly projects Karna as a great warrior, then there is no issue. He puts a comparison of Arjuna vs Karna and displays Karna as the greatest, which is hurting Hindus.
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