Re: [GRN] Indian cinema and Vasco de Gama

Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:10:22 -0700

In real history there are no good guys nor bad guys. Everybody is sometimes good and sometimes bad. We Portuguese did both good and bad things. One good thing was the opportunity of having Goans and othe peoples from India living in Portugal alongside us, helping us to shape the Portugal of the future, softening our culture and civilization. Without Vasco da Gama it wouldn't have happened...Was he a bastard? Maybe...
 
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Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 11:59 AM
From: "'Pedro Mascarenhas' via Goa-Research-Net" <[email protected]>
To: "Goa-Research-Net" <[email protected]>
Subject: [GRN] Indian cinema and Vasco de Gama

Urumi : The Warriors Who Wanted to Kill Vasco Da Gama, is a 2011 Indian Malayalam Language epic historical drama film.

Urumi is a double-edged, long and narrow flexible sword-like weapon that is fixed to the combatant´s waist like belt.

The film is set in the early 16th century, when the Portuguese dominated the Indian Ocean. The story follows Murikkancheri Kelu , seeking to avenge the death of his father at the hands of the portuguese colonizers.

The plot also incorporates such historical figures as Estêvão da Gama and Vasco da Gama.

This film marks the debut of Genelia D'Souza in Malayalam Cinema.  

Award, Imagineindia Internacional Film Festival Madrid : best film e best director.

As in many indian films, there are hyperbolic scenes, but the objective was to instill in Indian viewers a vision of what the colonial empire was, beyond what appears in school textbooks. It was viewed by millions of speakers of Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages.

The story cannot always be Eurocentric, but must contain the point of view of the colonized. The colonizer boasts of heroic deeds on a grand scale and presents the colonized as savage and ignorant. This film demonstrated to millions of Indian viewers what the invader was made of.

 

In this long video Vasco appears in the 16th minutes  and one can hear words spoken in Portuguese. 

 

Urumi Tamil Full Movie | Prithviraj | Prabhu Deva | Santosh Sivan | Arya | Genelia | Vidya Balan

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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