ABDUL LATIF and RAEES: Whitewashing Criminals or funded by Criminals? - Page 2

Originally posted by: pallavi25

So making a movie on an underworld Don means whitewashing him? 😕

pallavi, aren't movies on criminals whitewashed?? be it hw and bw, criminals have been humanised

whitewashed, shown to have moral conflicts and regretting their actions and yet continued on killing

... maybe it is a personal thing but I really do not get why criminals have to be potrayed as

chief protagonists...

Then why no problem with these following movies???

Deewar - starring Amitabh Bachchan- based on the life of Bombay's first underworld don Haji Mastan Mirza

Once Upon a Time in Mumbai- based on lives of Haji Mastan and Dawood Ibrahim

Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara- based on Dawood Ibrahim and his affair with BW actress

Most of these movies were hits or average and public didnt protest inspite of them being based on India's worst enemy Dawood who had planned 1993 attacks on Mumbai and got so many people killed, plus had extortion, blackmail cases against his gang.

yes you are absolutely right, and this is exactly what I am saying, films have been made in the past

about convictd criminals, at a time when there is proof that underworld gangsters have funded their films through black money. Just because it was never questioned in the past does not mean it will never be questioned in the future if someone finds something wrong with it. and I have problems with each of the those films that you have mentioned.they are equally guily of the same psychological manipulation

These mafia movies are based on real life mafia dons, that doesnt mean they are glorifying them, they are just telling the story of how real life villains are made. come on, films glorify characters, positive and negative, that is Bollywood.

By that logic, so many HW Mafia movies like Godfather, Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco, The Departed, Scarface, etc these would be bashed/ trashed as glorifying real life Mafia dons of New York and NJ that they are based on.

Instead these movies are HW classics.

they have had the same accusations and blame against them . However they are still considered master pieces due to their story telling, acting, direction, not because of the persons they played!

Its so immature to target one single movie for portraying a mafia don's life and death when dozens of such movies have been made in HW and BW before this, when people were more mature and unbiased to understand they were just presenting it as interesting stories to be told.

I am not targeting one single film, Raees is not even up for release, this topic concerned me thus I spoke about it, as you will see that in the beginning of my post I have talked about 90s Bollywood and the court cases and the news headlines that shocked the nation at that time. That is my concern, that what if now , when the country is battling terrorism, terrorist money is again being laundered through Bollywood, like it was in the 90s.

I respect your opinion nevertheless and have simply put forward my mid night musings !

by the way, Pallavi, shubho Panchami, Lovely Dp !😊

Originally posted by: Breeezy

yumyum, question was for TM who is pretty sure movie is all about glorifying the criminal 😆

Originally posted by: willina

yes @yamyam srk is playing the role of a criminal, but I said that this film might whitewash over the real person's deeds as t he plot summary that is available in mainstream media that He will play a negative character but with a sense of responsibility towards society. but for me who can be

accused of being a party to the Mumbai blasts and have 100+ cases against him, have a sense of responsibility to unfortunates is whitewashing. specially when he was a known associate of Dawood Ibrahim, and dawood Ibrahim is known to launder his black money through films.

Originally posted by: yamyam

If I am not wrong, the makers have already denied that the movie is based on the guy