#TELUGU HERO SUMAN BELONGS TO WHICH CASTE MOVIE#
The portrayal of violence by mainstream society as well as by the state against Adivasis is supposed to catch our attention, but unfortunately the movie entraps the audience with some Brahminical sentiments. The historic court case that ran for a decade is shrunk to a period equal to Sengani’s third-trimester. Sengani’s pregnancy plays a major role in the film, helping to gain empathy from the audience. If the case was fought for a decade, a woman can’t be pregnant throughout the case. But in the movie, the entire case is fought out within the limited time of a few months as Sengani is visibly pregnant with her second child throughout the film. The petition filed by his wife Parvathi was one of the longest fought cases in the history of the Madras HC. The film depicts the events in the real life case on the custodial killing of Rajakannu. But every narration of even a ‘real life’ story has a perspective. No doubt Jai Bhim is based on the life of Justice Chandru who fought relentlessly for the downtrodden. It is difficult for the audience to take sides as the Dalit cop kills Dalits in a fake encounter in the climax. For example, the policeman who tortures the migrant labourers is insulted by his superior that he has no brains because he belongs to a reserved category. Visaranai was complex, puzzling the audience with the intricacies of bureaucracy, caste, class and Indian judiciary. Visaranai blatantly uncovered the dark side of the police department – its brutality on working class migrant labourers to extract a confession to a theft in which they were framed. In other words, it has only black and white characters. In fact, it has several heroes and villains throughout the film. However, Jai Bhim has a hero, unlike Visaranai. Initially, Jai Bhim reminds one of Vetrimaran’s Visaranai (2015) with the explicit and prolonged scenes of custodial torture. Chandru supports Sengani in filing a habeas corpus petition in the Madras High Court. Sengani then approaches lawyer Chandru with the help of a teacher and civil rights activist. Rajakannu, Iruttapan and Mosakutty face brutal torture in custody before the police announce their alleged escape. Rajakannu is later arrested on his way back from a town where he works under a labour contractor. After a theft in the landlord’s house, police detain Rajakannu’s wife Sengani, his sister Pachaiammal, brother-in-law Mosakutty and brother Iruttapan, and torture them in lockup to find Rajakannu’s whereabouts. Jai Bhim throws light on such systemic violence against the Adivasi groups in India. People from these groups are often arbitrarily arrested, detained, subjected to torture by the police at the slightest pretext.
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These laws label certain Adivasi groups as essentially criminal. Many Adivasi groups in India suffer the stigma of criminality due to The Habitual Offenders Act, 1952 which replaced the colonial Criminal Tribes Act, 1871. Rajakannu belongs to the Irula community, an Adivasi (aboriginal) group of traditional healers and catchers of snakes and rats. In the opening scene, Rajakannu and his wife Sengani among others appear catching rats on the agricultural lands to help the village landlord, who in turn shows contempt towards the very group of people who are helping him. Jai Bhim is a film set in the mid-1990s in a village of Tamil Nadu.