There aren’t really any spoilers in this, which is kind of the point of the movie. These huge horrible things happen to society as a whole, not just to the Main Characters as part of a movie plot. But the film does force you to look at this horrible things and really accept that they are happening every day.
This movie shows realistic and graphic images of the harms caused by a corrupt government, including the following scenes in order of appearance:
– Opening scene shows a village being rampaged by terrorists and people dying, including children.
– Farmer is stripped naked (with his genitals on display but blurred) by a bank official in front of his wife, grown up daughter, and the whole village. The farmer shortly commits suicide by hanging himself and the daughter finds him.
– Man is shown being forced to swallow a poison pill and die while bleeding through his nose and ears while his wife watches, so his newborn isn’t killed the same way.
– While a government official is talking about improvements he has made to government hospitals, there are images shown of malnourished, screaming, sick, dying mothers, children, and elderly individuals. People are shown opened up on the operating table while the hospital remains ill equipped to perform the surgery.
– An viral outbreak brings 60 children to a government hospital, all in need of oxygen. Hospital staff is manually helping the children breath waiting for the oxygen which never arrives due to the corrupt government. All 60 children are shown dying through asphyxiation while the adults break down.
– Multiple men break into a house and kill the dog. The dog is shown bleeding and dead while the women looks into its dead eyes and screams.
– A mother is shown taken away to be executed by order of a death penalty while the child is screaming and crying. The woman is then shown being hung. (I almost didn’t include this scene in this list because while this scene was one of the saddest in the movie, it was not overly graphic in my opinion.)
– A woman dies on a makeshift operating table after saving another woman’s life. Right before she dies, she flashes back to when she asked her children to hide in the bath tub and hold their breath, then we see poison gas sweep through her village leaving the children’s bodies floating in the tub.
Looking at this list, it should be clear that except for the Dog scene, everything else is intended to show social ills. Personally, I have no gratuitious violence objection to those scenes because I think they should be as harsh and confronting as possible. HOWEVER, that does not mean that every person in the world is required to watch them. Please read this list over before deciding whether or not to see the film, ESPECIALLY with children.
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I really would like to know what children tell after having watched the movie…and how they have reacted during the movie…
Personally, I’ve a lot of faith in the understanding of little minds…
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I couldn’t watch these kinds of scenes as a child either. I would close my eyes and ears. Now at least I can listen to them, only close my eyes 😝
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The worst scene for my son, was the hospital one. He closed his eyes because it was too much for him( It’s also because unfortunately he took a little of health anxiety from me and doesn’t like to hear about the sicknesses and hospitals) . I asked him now what he thinks about the movie and if it was too dark, and he said it was indeed dark, but every sad/violent scene was justified and necessary for the plot. It wasn’t gratuitous violence. He liked the movie (but he is also someone who reads books about WWII during summer so..). He only had a problem with identifying the villain. According to my son, the villain looked different every time he was on screen. In one scene he was wearing glasses, in other not, in the next one he had different hair etc. and it was hard to understand if it’s the same guy.
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Thank you for sharing, Angie! Whenever you talk about your son, he just seems like such an old soul! So wise and thoughtful beyond his years!
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LOL yes, I often tell him “boy, you’re 12 on the outside but 90 inside”.
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I closed my eyes during many of these scenes. I’m pretty good at spotting when something I can’t tolerate is about to be shown and shamelessly closing my eyes and not watching it. The first farmer story caught me off guard but after that the collector taking the red pill – I just did not watch it in the two viewings!!!!
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I am usually good at that too but I usually have to close my ears also because hearing it has just as bad of an effect on me. Actually, in many instances, I can see a tough scene, if I mute the noise.
On a separate note, how is Hyderabad? While I consider Mumbai home since that’s where I was born and that’s where I go back to when I go back to India, Hyderabad is actually where I grew up and went to school. How are you feeling during your ayurvedic treatment?
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Hyderabad – the weather is lovely other than a couple of bouts of heavy rain. The treatment center is very frustrating and disorganized. I am meeting some nice people and having good conversations at meal times etc. The treatment is usually intense and will get more so as time passes.
I’m in Mansoorabad, so not Hyderabad proper and actually haven’t seen anything outside the clinic area even on my last trip here. Thank you for asking ♥️♥️🥰
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Filmikudhi you grew up in Hyderabad? Because of your past comments I have you cemented in Mumbai in my head. Do you speak any Telugu? And if you don’t speak Telugu, what was it like growing up in Hyderabad without speaking that language? All I know of the city is from Telugu movies. Mostly Parugu. Allu Arujun roller skating down streets, his character’s mother’s house, temples and apartment buildings and rapey building sites. I understand Mumbai as a city of neighborhoods that are essentially cities within themselves, perhaps because it is shown differently in so many different movies. But Hyderabad is the mystical land of street performances and hot guys in roller skates. So basically my entire view of the city is largely based on the video below.
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Ha! Yes, I went to school in Hyderabad but haven’t been back since I moved to the US because almost all of my family is in Mumbai. I have the best memories of Hyderabad though. I spoke Telugu as a child because it was as taught in school and everyone around me spoke it, but for some reason I don’t have much of a recollection anymore. I have tried watching Telugu movies to see if any of it comes back. I understand a few words but not too many. I do want to pick it up again though.
It’s weird which languages stick with you and which don’t. There are other Indian languages that I never officially learned but I can still understand them and speak some of them when needed. I wish Telegu had stuck with me.
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Here in NZ it was rated R16 – no entry for anyone under 16 – and I can see why, it would be too much for some kids. (Rio why 😭 that was almost too much for me 😭)
Claudia- my 13-year-old thought the hard-hitting parts were necessary and awesome; he’s very politically/socially aware and all love and trust for SRK so he was thrilled to see him using his power to highlight those issues and empower others in-verse, and confident that the overarching message would be to empower the audience too; that it wasn’t going to be gratuitous. So he adored the big wall-breaking speech and all the metaphor and meta of it, and came out of the film charged up and all admiration. And insisted on coming again the next day 😄
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In the older Indian movies I see, early 90s and a few from before, the rich men are usually the evil men. THEN around K3G times, so late 90s & 2000s, the rich were the heroes. And it seemed like they mostly remained the heroes until, say, now?
This has stuck with me, because I don’t like the rich as heroes. My personal philosphy was much more inline with the evil rich guy movies. I do like K3G, but I like it a bit less, because they are so rich. I love DDD, because they are rich, and definitely NOT heroes!
Reading about Jawan I can’t help but wonder, is India culturally moving away from a glorification of wealth? I can’t help but hope so, and then I wish my own culture would follow.
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India during the Cold War was unaligned, and they had this philosophy trapped between communism, socialism, and capitalism. In the 1990s there was a huge cultural upset and “liberalization” of the economy which removed a ton of restrictions and allowed business to flourish. Since then north India has been super pro-business, pro “progress”, pro all of that. Meanwhile, southern India (which has always been a little more leftist) has stayed a bit more leftist. So yes, you are totally seeing that in the movies!!!!
Added on to this is the multiplex push. As the cheaper theaters are slowly pushed out of business, that means the audience at the poverty line is no longer being considered. So in terms of movies in particular, there’s a move towards showing “people like us” (that is, urban elites who are going to fancy theaters).
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Growing up I remember Tamil movies directed by actor Vijay’s father, starring actor Vijaykanth, that were firmly anti-establishment.
Probably similar movies in other south Indian languages too.
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I definitely noticed there were communists in Southern movies, I grew up in the cold war, so anytime I see the word comrade in a subtitle I can’t help but notice. One of my beefs with the Netflix subtitles for Parugu is that they took out all the comrade statements from one of the characters. It was clearly supposed to be part of his personality, a politically minded but ultimately random dude thrown in with the rest. Now he is just a random dude, because of a change in subtitle translation. I suppose it could be weak writing to use politics in characterization, but it worked.
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I have a lot of feelings about the film, this seems like the best place to drop some of it…the dog scene almost made me leave the theater…if this wasn’t an SRK film I honestly wouldn’t have stayed. I think except for that scene, all the violence (not so much the opening scene) was as raw as you would expect for the plot. I was moved by the message about making your vote count and the ills of corruption, nothing overlooked there. But for me personally, the discomfort of viewing the emotional impact of threatening an infant with poisoning, the children dying in the hospital and the parents’ reaction, really unbearable. I can’t see the film again for sure, and I would not let my 11 year old watch it as he’s a sensitive soul. I’ve been watching the song videos on repeat though, and I especially love the extended version of Not Ramaiya Vastavaiya where real SRK alternates and reacts to Zaddy SRK. But seriously well done as a film, big and bold, just not my cup of tea.
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Rachel – I think you summarized my feelings far better than I could have in every way!!! The dog scene, the infant being threatened, and the children dying coupled with the parents and hospital staff reaction will haunt me for a long time. The disrobing of the dad in front of his daughter, while not as emotionally haunting as the others, was so unexpected and startling and because that was the first social ill scene , it made me nauseous.
I agree with you that it is not a movie I can see ever again. It is too raw and emotionally draining for me . I would also, personally, not feel comfortable exposing my kids to it unless they really wanted to see it and then, we would likely have lots of discussions before and after so they are well prepared.
I am glad the movie is made and doing well. Shah Rukh deserves this success. But the movie is not for me.
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