Khilji the new villain - Page 2

God spare is the taliban wannabe brigade- first Karni Sena and now this all over a pure masala as Bollywood as possible movie. If anything the movie glorifies Khilji. He was shown as an adorable goofy villain?/ antagonist( in no way menacing . His killing of people was shown as pure camp). The movie felt like two different movies - one of Khilji and Kafur which was fun, camp with gleeful villainy and the other about Ratan and Padmavati - very serious holier than thou straight out boring. Anybody who takes this movie seriously is I don't know what to say.

Originally posted by: sunflower52

I think SLB should stop making movies based on historical figures and if want to adapt any book or poem should do full justice to it.Which seems to be difficult task for SLB.

This forums amuses me blind fans calling other people blind, just for disagreeing with the film maker vision. Can not even handle any criticism

So most scholars rejected that vision of Khilji which some counter attacked me with the debate that I had about him last time.

SLB historical movies are a nightmare for the actual historians, who take this academia seriously.

Well issue personally for me is not questioning portrayal of Khilji. Yes I know Khilji was not a nomad savage as shown in the movie. And if anyone finds it inaccuarate, they have the right to criticize. And fans of the movie have the right to correct them, it is clearly told in the start that the movie has no resemblance with either the Khiljis nor the Rajputs and it is a fictional tale based on fictional poem.


For me the issue is giving the movie a religious angle by saying it is anti-Islam.
The movie nowhere says or tries to show Muslims are bad nor that Khilji was bad because he was muslim.
Now Khilji of SLB is even shown as a non-religious person who considered himself God and whole his army is busy reading namaaz, and he is waiting to see Padmavati full in lust.

Khilji was shown as a villain and he will always remain a villain for the Rajputs as no colonial considers their invader hero. No matter how much good they did back home. Because their negatives always outweigh their positives. Like English also brought many reforms and it is because of them today we are one nation (yes Pakistan and Bangladesh parted because of this very religious bullshit, but it happened so cannot do anything) today. But that does not make them good or hero, because they will always remain villain in our psyche.


I am no fan of SLB, if anything I am very vocal in expressing my dislike for him. But these silly politically driven stuffs against him is stupid. First Right winged trashed him and than now left winged are trashing him. Yes he is a stupid dude, who uses his PR to make sensational aura around his movie and his movies are generally boring and average(like if Padmavat did not had Kafur and Khilji it would have been bloody boring). But it does not mean people have the right to twist and give new political and religious meaning to his movies, when it is simple they are not such.

So many articles and thesis about the movie.. Was the movie really that great to have such heavy duty debates??..

^ But he does live in a lavish palace ( Agra palace )

Originally posted by: U_R_MY_BITCH

Well issue personally for me is not questioning portrayal of Khilji. Yes I know Khilji was not a nomad savage as shown in the movie. And if anyone finds it inaccuarate, they have the right to criticize. And fans of the movie have the right to correct them, it is clearly told in the start that the movie has no resemblance with either the Khiljis nor the Rajputs and it is a fictional tale based on fictional poem.


For me the issue is giving the movie a religious angle by saying it is anti-Islam.
The movie nowhere says or tries to show Muslims are bad nor that Khilji was bad because he was muslim.
Now Khilji of SLB is even shown as a non-religious person who considered himself God and whole his army is busy reading namaaz, and he is waiting to see Padmavati full in lust.

Khilji was shown as a villain and he will always remain a villain for the Rajputs as no colonial considers their invader hero. No matter how much good they did back home. Because their negatives always outweigh their positives. Like English also brought many reforms and it is because of them today we are one nation (yes Pakistan and Bangladesh parted because of this very religious bullshit, but it happened so cannot do anything) today. But that does not make them good or hero, because they will always remain villain in our psyche.


I am no fan of SLB, if anything I am very vocal in expressing my dislike for him. But these silly politically driven stuffs against him is stupid. First Right winged trashed him and than now left winged are trashing him. Yes he is a stupid dude, who uses his PR to make sensational aura around his movie and his movies are generally boring and average(like if Padmavat did not had Kafur and Khilji it would have been bloody boring). But it does not mean people have the right to twist and give new political and religious meaning to his movies, when it is simple they are not such.

The Karni sena will ban me from India if I write a fifty shades of greyesque Khilji/Padmavati fan fiction. Heck I think some forum members might even wage war against me.