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Recently released Raakh joins a pattern that has settled into Indian content - Creative Rewriting in the name of Creative Liberty.
The 1978 Ranga-Billa case is dramatised on screen, but Inspector VP Gupta, who led the real investigation, is rewritten as SI Jayprakash Jatav, a Dalit officer battling caste prejudice in the force.
The pattern is not isolated.
Jai Bhim (2021) dramatised a real police torture case in which the brutal officer was Christian.
- The film recoded him on screen as a Hindu Vanniyar, with the community's sacred Agni Kundam symbol in the background.
- A legal notice eventually forced the filmmakers to blur it.
Soorarai Pottru, the 2020 film on Air Deccan founder Captain GR Gopinath, recast him on screen as a fierce Dravidian disciple of Periyar.
- Gopinath himself comes from an Iyengar background.
- The achievement on screen was real. The identity attached to it had been switched.
IC 814 kept the hijackers' onboard codenames Bhola and Shankar foregrounded on screen.
- The men's real Pakistani names — Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Sayeed, Sunny Ahmed Qazi — barely featured.
Traditional creative liberty compresses time, combines minor figures, invents dialogue.
What is emerging is different. The identity of a real person is swapped to attach a political narrative to their story.
For most viewers, the screen version replaces the historical record.
@CranksCorner in @SwarajyaMag with writes how cinematic shortcut crosses into ideological rewriting, and why the line is worth holding even when the individual films are well-made.
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