In a surprising decision to many, director and anti Naxal activist Vivek Agnihotri has announced that he will direct an elaborate trilogy on the development of the Sanatan civilization. This will cover the development of the Sanatan civilization, from its infancy during the Indus Valley era to the Buddhist era.
As reported on I Am Buddha website, Vivek Agnihotri has confirmed that he will be directing a trilogy that is tentatively titled – ‘From Brahma to Buddha’.
Dear friends, this is what I am going to do for next few years. Please bless me. #HistoryOfHinduCivilisation https://t.co/dbw9S6d6zn
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) November 14, 2018
To quote his confirmation, “Hindu civilization is humanity’s only surviving, open, liberal and plural civilization. While all civilizations perished, we survived. Despite so many attacks, invasions, foreign rules, partitions, wars, Indian civilization stands tall and unbreakable. Today, once again India is on its way to become a vishwaguru. It’s important that this story be told. This is a story of a Hero who was greatest but then attacked, looted, wounded and left to die but it rose again, and how.”
When asked on how he was inspired to take up such a mammoth task, he cheekily added, “I am a worshipper of Maa Saraswati and it’s her wish that I do this. I am just a medium. If Maa Saraswati truly wants me do it, everything will come about to make it happen.”
As of now, this trilogy is Vivek Agnihotri’s second major project, which he shall take up after he has completed his current project, ‘The Tashkent Files’. For those unaware, this is a biopic that shall focus on the cover up of the mysterious death of Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died only a day after the Tashkent pact was signed in 1966.
To be honest, this is the right decision taken at an opportune moment. After SS Rajamouli unleashed a new wave of Indian cinema, which was not apologetic of their roots in the Sanatan culture through his ‘Bahubali franchise’, an entirely new brigade has surfaced in the rather leftist and ultra secular Bollywood. As Neeraj Pandey is making his own biopic on the legendary scholar and the brains behind the Mauryan Empire, i.e. Chanakya, with Ajay Devgan, this news is another delight for enthusiastic movie buffs, who are eager to know more about the wise scholar.
Initially delivering their movies with mixed results, this stellar brigade hit the right note with ‘Parmanu’, which despite negative reviews from left liberal critics, proved to be a critical success. While we are not unaware of popular actor Aamir Khan’s ambitions to relive the legendary epic of Mahabharata as a 7 part web series, we do have some genuine doubts, courtesy his treatment of the subject in his latest flick, ‘Thugs of Hindostan’.
As such, Vivek Agnihotri is the right choice for rediscovering our roots through the medium of cinema, which has been carefully peddled as mythology by ignorant Europeans and willful Marxist historians from our own Bharat. We do hope that he is extremely successful in his endeavor, and he finds a place amongst the rare individuals, who actually contributed something to the prosperity of our Bharat.