It’s the character of Shivudu in ‘Baahubali’, who can scale high mountains like climbing a hillock and can lift heavy weights with equal ease which brings the epic size credibility to the protagonist besides many other elements. The justification of such great strength comes in the wake that Shivudu is the devotee of Lord Shiva in the movie.
The above analysis is done to connect to the present story how ‘Baahubali’, the biggest motion picture of India got its religion, the Hindu. During and after the release of Aamir’s ‘pk’ a lot of Hindutva trolls were disturbing to the hardcore Hindutva exemplary. Such people are finding solace by tagging Baahubali as Hindu.
Besides the Hindu tag, for many Baahubali has become the anti-Khans victory in the Bollywood. There is no Khans’ name attached to Baahubali and hence it’s anti-Khans, a befitting answer to the Khans rule in Bollywood. Though the film got inspired by epic stories from all around the world, religious fundamentalists are embracing it as Hindu epic.
Attaching one particular religion to a work of masterpiece is never going to be justified. Though there are no Khans in Baahubali, there are many other technicians and artists who belong to different faiths who worked for Baahubali in the making the epic movie. Will branding a religious tag do good to any piece of art?
