Gypsy - the third adventure of Director Raju Murugan that strongly implies the audacity and courage he posses to steer his path on the dangerous road. After speaking about the love and affection that persist in the world of blind people through his first movie 'Cuckoo' and introducing the unnoticed activists who have been working for the betterment of the community through his second adventure 'Joker', he has now touched up what was and has been threatening the country's diversity - religious fanaticism.
Through Gypsy, Raju Murugan has taken a larger step and directed a subject that has more danger behind it and its indisputable that it's the subject of more importance. At the global stage, the face of India is not the economy or the wealth but its democracy and diversity as India's diversity have the power to strongly pillar the principles of the country. However, there are some of the outfits in the country that either aim to collapse the diversity or to relinquish its principles and those outfits have now threaded together and ruling the country and Raju Murugan has courageously touched the subject and scripted the story of how these groups are seeding the hatred.
The Godhra train burning in 2002 and the violence occurred aftermath of the incident in Gujarat was certainly the unerasable and ineradicable stain on the faces of religious goodwill and the stain had exhumed the religious fanatic faces and challenged the secular principles and the violence had shown no mercy on the children and the women who carried the fetus. The official numbers of death had crossed more than thousands as the violence has threatened the diversity and while some were mourning on the death of their loved ones and secularism, others have claimed the violence as their victory as their brains and nerves were filled with the hatred blood. There were two important faces in the violence - Ashok Mochi, who carried the saffron agenda and hostility of hunting down the Muslims on one side while Qutubuddin Ansari, who was pleading for rescue along with his family on the other side.
These two faces would remain in the history of Indian violence. Apart from following the opposite religion, they had no personal feud or enmity so does the people died in the violence. The hatred and hostility have no business of showing mercy. Its ultimate motive is to seed the hatred and water it with blood. In 2017, Ashok Mochi and Qutubuddin Ansari were made to meet each other. They expressed affection and united as the symbol of the real Indian fraternity. They observe no personal enmity but the power hysteria has made them turn against each other and this 'Gypsy' was directed based on this true story.
'Senior' has been embracing and raising the children who have lost their parents in Kashmir bombing without carrying any sort of identity and 'Gypsy' travels across the country along with Senior as his pilgrim and along with Gypsy comes his horse 'Che'. After the demise of Senior, Gypsy arrives in Nagore along with Che. He meets Natasha, a daughter of strict Islamic father and she travels with Gypsy across India and they get married in Varanasi as per Islamic formalities and takes home for rent in Varanasi and living a happy life during which they ought to face the violence in Varanasi that was instigated by the extremists wearing saffron clothes. Natasha cries and pleads for life before the man, addicted to religion, who carries the rod and this scene of religious extremism freezes the people who never came through the pain of religious supremacy.
It's typical that Raju Murugan's movie would carry politics but he is specialized in speaking about the prevailing politics and presenting the communal disorders and ignominy straight towards the face. 'Gypsy' is speaking nationally of what 'Joker' spoken across Tamil Nadu and he has made a significant picture amid the erosion of civil liberties, throttling freedom of expression, and saffron extremism that tries to shape the country as one nation with one religion and one language. The beginning scenes that amplifies the beauty of India and the violence shows how the beautiful nation has been getting preyed for hostilities. Despite targeting one particular religion, the director has targeted all the religions and pictured the defects of the religions which had made the movie that spare no religions. Director Raju Murugan must be credited for speaking about the religious fanaticism and supremacy at the right time and for making the cinematic screen as his weapon against such principles that degrade our diversity.
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