#AdiPurush

[niharikaaa2]

How are we feeling about this one fam?

[shut-up-rabert]

Imagine making a Ramayan so bad that left right hindu muslim all unite to collectively boycott it😶‍🌫️

[probablyasocialecologist]

Nostalgia is an often-underappreciated component in nationalism: a carefully crafted collective yearning for a lost idealised and often non-existent past, used in the service of contemporary political projects. The ‘glorious golden age’ serves to galvanise a particular form of collective social identity that stresses shared cultural heritage for a unified nation. At the same time, nostalgic visions exclude those deemed internal and external ‘others’ responsible for the downfall of this golden age (the Mughal era is currently being removed from the Indian school syllabus). This repurposing and ‘presenting’ of the past – a kind of heritage politics – not only mobilises support for political causes and commercial interests but also provides distraction from bad governance, through the promise and vision of a regenerated past-inspired future, associated with pride and dominance over enemies. Nostalgia, therefore, can be used to build hegemony by nationalist movements and parties, by articulating disparate individuals and groups into a nationalist political identity while marginalising others.

[enigma-the-mysterious]

How did even a Japanese anime narrate Ramayana better than Adipurush? 😂😭

[warnermeadowsgirl]

I love Prabhas l really do but Adipurush just wasn't it

[misalpav]

all i rly want to know is who's idea it was for the men in adipurush to wear tank tops. it didn't matter to any of you in those action movies where they do montages of mens' 6-packs etc but in a ramayana movie where there's proof they definitely weren't wearing cotton shirts it's suddenly necessary to cover up using western standards of modesty? give me a break

they had all of this and more as a reference but nopeeee

[n0tm3g]

People are comparing Kalki to Adipurush?!? 😭😭 Mf Adipurush doesn't stand a chance what are you yapping?

[hum-suffer]

Since adipurush made everyone talk about Ramayan; here's a rant of my own.

WHY do we scorn Vibhishan? Ghar ka bhedi, step brother, traitor, what haven't we called the man who found dharma and hence Narayan Avtaar Shri Ram? The man listened when no one else did, he realised what and who was right, if he already hadn't. Vibhishan's tale is what happens in Kaliyug, a person on the wrong path by association and ignorance corrects his path by finding God. Why is he scorned for choosing a side that is morally correct? And even if you want to say he's half asur or whatever and he has no morals, or maybe you say that he only grew a moral compass when he was about to die, but what of it? If you were fighting a war that you did not cause and you knew was unjust, why would you fight for the losing side? Being logical may or may not be selfish but it is completely understandable. Vibhishan was a man that helped win the war marginally. He helped kill his brother, his anguish is unparalleled, but remembering a man of honour and righteousness as a traitor, aren't we doing injustice to a man that was a fellow devotee? That went against his dharm as a brother to obey is dharm as a being?

[shyama-pyaari]

Prabhas was not at all fit for Shri Ram's role...humare mann mei toh abhi bhi Arun Govil hi aate hai ...

[salaarfanindia]

Damn.. saw adipurush yesterday.. and I can't even thirst over prabhas becoz he was Lord Ram... and I just remembered what happened to the last woman who lusted over him..

Spoiler ⚠️: she got her nose cut...

So I looked at him with respect and devotion..

[suvarnarekha]

the only good thing adipurush gave us was the fantabulous banger 'jai shree ram' <3

[niharikaaa2]

King Dashrath advertising Rupa frontline in Adipurush

[thegleamingmoon]

The trailer of Adipurush seems a little (just a little) better than that clownery of a teaser that they released. But,

The frames are soo dark! Idk why,they say that they've spent 700 crores on this but it doesn't feel like that one bit. I don't feel the magic. I've always felt so connected with Hanumanji but I don't feel that connect here. I just don't feel connected to this movie whatsoever. The background score is good (Thanks to Ajay-Atul) but again, that's the bare minimum you can expect from what they call a 'magnum-opus production'.

Our epics deserve better representation.

[sarayu-sunrays]

Holy shit what is up with this adipurush. I don't even speak Hindi fully and I can understand half of the horrible dialogues that Hanuman ji is saying, can't even imagine how bad is the other half. Made Shri Ram some aggressive gangster wala character and that too with a moustache. Showing Sita Maa as this weak character when in reality she lifted the Shiv Dhanush single handedly as a mere child, forgetting that she is Goddess Lakshmi incarnate.

Also they changed the names but to still imply the characters (e.g. Raghav=of the Raghu lineage, janaki=janak's daughter)

And to add insult to injury they think the youth demographic, who are trying their best to understand their religion in this age filled with movies like this, will want to watch this trashy video game waala flop film.

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Okay guys. The Adipurush memes are really funny and I am really enjoying everyone coming out guns blazing, but there's something important I want to say.

Please stop using the word chhapri in a derogatory way. The chhapris are an oppressed caste, so the word is a casteist slur.

Use "cringe" or "hooligan" or "gunda" or "edgy" or whatever fits for you to describe Raavan and his family's horrible fashion sense but please stop throwing around casteist slurs. As a Dalit Hindu, it's really uncomfortable to see these words casually thrown around as insults everywhere.

[misalpav]

literally the more i learn about adipurush the more i want to scream. apparently when he transforms from a sanyaasi to the asura form, ravana's rudraksha kavach also breaks bc of his bicep muscles? let's not forget ravana was a devotee of mahadev so why would he ever let that happen?