Misogyny in Indian movies and the problem with ‘Mass entertainers’
The recently released Dhruva Sarja movie Pogaru is a hit in Karnataka as the Action Prince’s fans rushed to the theatre to watch their hero’s ‘energetic performance’ after nearly four years. Dhruva Sarja gave in a lot of efforts for this movie. He had to transform himself completely to play the ‘devilish’ protagonist of the film, Shiva. The movie created a lot of controversy within the Brahmin community as they thought some scenes were ‘offensive towards them.’ The director had to come forward and cut 14 scenes from the movie, and Dhruva had to ask for forgiveness from the Brahmin community, and said that he did so ‘because he plays a demon-like character in the film’ and he would ensure that the ‘masses are always happy.’ But that’s not all that is wrong with the movie. The first song of the movie called Karabuu ,which was released in April, 2020, also faced a lot of criticism due to its glorification of male misogyny. The song showed the protagonist of the movie going about harassin...