Call to ban screening of ‘Yugapurushan’

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The SC/ST Aikyavedi has demanded that the screening rights of the movie ‘Yugapurushan’ be cancelled as according to the organisation the film portrays social reformer and leader of the SC/ST Ayyankali in a bad light.

At a press conference here, the Aikyavedi office-bearers demanded that the screening of the film be stopped immediately and that the producers of the movie apologised for the allegedly demeaning Ayyankali.

The Aikyavedi said there were several scenes in the film in which Sree Narayana Guru had been eulogised for bringing about many social reforms, many of which were actually brought about by Ayyankali. It claimed that while both Sree Narayana Guru and Ayyankali were friends and contemporaries, the Guru had been portrayed as the teacher of Ayyankali.

They said they had no dispute about the greatness of Sree Narayana Guru but that their objection was to portraying Ayyankali as a henchman of the Guru. The film did not give due credit to Ayyankali as a great social reformer and while extolling the Guru as a ‘Yugapurushan,’ was humiliating Ayyankali, they claimed.

SC/ST organizations seem to be misled ....There is no reason to compare Guru with Ayyankali... Both fought against untouchability and orthodoxy and the caste system. Methods were different.

Ayyankali followed an approach of confrontation where Guru followed a method where he asked his followers to go forward disregarding the forces trying to push them behind.

SC/ST organizations need to realize this and tone down their criticism...

All should accept and understand the sad fact that since 1947, reformation movements went backward and especially in the last 20 years almost dead! Here all organizations SNDP, NSS and SC/ST organizations too have to take the responsibility - all are accountable for the debacle we see now!