Re: [GRN] Indian cinema and Vasco de Gama

JOHN DE FIGUEIREDO Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:59:25 -0700

 Worth remembering:the following "Descendentes" who most certainly were not 
"xenophobic"::Tomás de Aquino Mourão Garcez Palha: expert in Konkani, Marathi, 
and Sanskrit, who encouraged Varde Valaulicar to devote himself to the 
uplifiting of Konkani because in his opinion Konkani, not Marathi, was the 
mother tongue of all GoansCristóvão  Aires, a wonderful poet, who described 
India as his "berço meu amado" (:my beloved cradle)Ferreira Martins, a 
distinguished historian, who translated to Portuguese Kalidasa's poem 
Shankuntala and Tagore's poems Gitanjali and ChitraFernando Leal, another 
wonderful poet, who wrote poetry based on themes of Hindu epics and praised the 
distinguished Goan poet Floriano BarretoThe countless "Descendentes" who were 
slaughtered during the Gaspar Dias Fortress incident "in the flower of their 
age" (to quote Miguel Vicente de Abreu) by the insurrectionists who deposed 
Bernardo Peres da Silva; those "Descendentes" were there to defend the fortress 
and they were ready to die for Peres da Silva and his Liberal Cause.(and yet we 
have distinguished Goan historians like Teotónio de Sousa and Leopoldo da Rocha 
calling that insurrection a "mestiço revolt" and shoving that incident and 
other brave "Descendentes" who were loyal to Peres da Silva under the 
rug)Calling them "xenophobic" would be offending their memories and falsifying 
history to satisfy our political appetites..Compare them to Bishop Mateus de 
Castro (sometimes called "Mahale", a name he does not appear to have ever used) 
who believed that only Brahmans should be Bishops and who was a racist and a 
castist by his own admission.John M. de Figueiredo

On Monday, July 1, 2024 at 02:37:38 PM EDT, 'Nuno Cardoso da Silva' via
Goa-Research-Net <[email protected]> wrote:

"...xenophobic mestiços or descendentes..." I love generalizations... Nuno
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2024 at 12:01 PM
From: "'Pedro Mascarenhas' via Goa-Research-Net"
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Subject: Re: [GRN] Indian cinema and Vasco de Gama John URUMI, was a huge
success and was seen by millions who got an idea of the history of the past.
I have now learned that the film was shown in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt,
Qatar, Kuwait, Canada, UK and others.The names Rivara, etc. that you mentioned
are a drop in the ocean. You should have mentioned the thousands of racists,
exploiters, slavers, entire villages massacred, criminal exiles sent to the
colonies, the bloodthirsty political police (PIDE/DGS), the xenophobic mestiços
or descendentes, etc.“Colonization itself” is an aberration. For this reason,
all colonized peoples fought relentlessly and the statues of false heroes were
torn down. We must not forget that the Portuguese people also suffered a lot.
On Sunday, June 30, 2024 at 07:09:34 AM GMT+1, John de Figueiredo
<[email protected]> wrote: “The colonizer … presents the colonized as
savage and ignorant”.Assuming that “colonizer” refers to Europeans or their
descendants: what would make Afonso de Albuquerque say that Goan carpenters
were better than those from Germany? And Garcia d’Orta refer to Hindu
physicians as “great scholars”? And Tomas Ribeiro praise the Goan talent for
literature? And Cunha Rivara and Garces Palha encourage Goans to study their
language? And Osorio Castro establish a Museum of Hindu Art and Archaeology in
Velha Goa (Old Goa)? And Ferreira Martins translate Tagore’s poetry? And
Cristóvão Aires find inspiration in Indian epics?With all due respect, in the
case of Goa at least, such generalizations are not helpful.John M. de
Figueiredo Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 28, 2024, at 11:57 PM, 'Pedro Mascarenhas' via Goa-Research-Net
<[email protected]> wrote:

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.

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