Himanshu

Being Shurpanakha is so tough. - Your husband gets killed. - You get rejected by the man you love. - His brother cuts off your nose, destroying your beauty for no reason. You have to feel sorry for Shurpanakha. What Shri Ram and Lakshman did to her was wrong.

my post was taken down following a DMCA complaint filed on behalf of Columbia Pictures (@SonyPictures). I had used an approximately 18 second excerpt from the movie solely to provide context for my criticism of its portrayal of events in the Valmiki Ramayana. for context, I'm attaching the relevant page from the Valmiki Ramayana (Aranya Kanda, Sarga 18). It shows the original narrative surrounding Shurpanakha's advances towards Rama and Lakshmana, her threats towards Sita, and the subsequent events. I am sharing the textual reference here instead of reposting the movie footage. India's Copyright Act, under Section 52(1)(a)(ii), recognises fair dealing for criticism or review, including criticism of another work. I'm not claiming that every short clip is automatically exempt from copyright but shouldn't the purpose and context of the use also be considered before treating it as copyright infringement? even X's own copyright policy acknowledges that not every unauthorised use of copyrighted material constitutes infringement. I cannot pursue an expensive legal battle, but I do believe legitimate criticism and review deserve consideration. I'd like @X and @SonyPictures to clarify how such uses are evaluated. @JaipurDialogues @GemsOfBollywood @grok

I went back to read the original Valmiki Ramayana (Aranya Kanda) and the difference between the actual account and what's being shown in the new Bollywood Ramayana is quite surprising In the original account Shurpanakha threatens to eat Sita after her advances towards Ram and Lakshmana are rejected. Shri Ram then instructs Lakshmana then Lakshmana cut off her nose and ears but in the movie, the entire context is changed. Shurpanakha takes Sita's form to manipulate Ram and when Lakshmana cuts her nose, Sita questions his decision, saying her mistake wasn't that serious and that he had no right to harm a woman's appearance That's a completely different narrative and moral framing. Cinematic adaptations can have creative interpretations but when you're adapting an epic like the Ramayana shouldn't the original characters events and context be treated with some responsibility? @GemsOfBollywood #RamayanaMovie #RamayanaReview

You are right about the scene. In Valmiki, Shurpanakha lunges at Sita to devour her, and only then does Shri Rama tell Lakshmana to disfigure her. The film changes that, and the change is fair to question. But read 9 sargas earlier in the same Aranya Kanda. Sita stops Rama and warns him against 3 faults born of desire: falsehood, desire for another's wife, and violence without enmity. She tells him the bow is meant to protect the suffering, not to strike those who have done no wrong. Then go to the end of the war. Hanumanji asks Mata Sita's permission to kill every rakshasi who tormented her for months in the Ashoka Vatika. She refuses. They only obeyed Ravana, she says. A noble person shows compassion to the sinful and the righteous alike, even to those who deserve death, because who in this world has never erred? That is Valmiki's Sita. A Sita who would question a wound given to a rakshasi is not a woke invention. The film did not invent her conscience. It moved it to another scene. And Valmiki is not the only Ramayana. In Tulsidas, Shurpanakha comes to Rama in a beautiful assumed form, not as she is. The scene has been reshaped before. Now the larger picture. This scene is not about one nose. It is the hinge on which the whole cosmic plan turns. The devas had already prayed to Vishnu to end Ravana. Ravana's boon had left out humans. And the Bhagavata tells us who Ravana really was: Jaya, Vishnu's own doorkeeper, cursed to be born as an asura, freed each time by Vishnu Himself. The same Bhagavata says some reach Him through love, and some through hatred. Shurpanakha's wound brings Ravana to Sita. Sita brings Ravana to Rama. And Rama brings Jaya home. That is the deva-asura sangram. Not good people against bad people, but Vishnu's lila, where even the villain is His own. Faithfulness matters. But the deepest faithfulness is to the meaning, not only to the sequence.

I went back to read the original Valmiki Ramayana (Aranya Kanda) and the difference between the actual account and what's being shown in the new Bollywood Ramayana is quite surprising In the original account Shurpanakha threatens to eat Sita after her advances towards Ram and Lakshmana are rejected. Shri Ram then instructs Lakshmana then Lakshmana cut off her nose and ears but in the movie, the entire context is changed. Shurpanakha takes Sita's form to manipulate Ram and when Lakshmana cuts her nose, Sita questions his decision, saying her mistake wasn't that serious and that he had no right to harm a woman's appearance That's a completely different narrative and moral framing. Cinematic adaptations can have creative interpretations but when you're adapting an epic like the Ramayana shouldn't the original characters events and context be treated with some responsibility? @GemsOfBollywood #RamayanaMovie #RamayanaReview

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