Raakh is not the first: From Dahaad to Tandav, Prime Video keeps adding ideological spin to Indian stories

Raakh is not the first: From Dahaad to Tandav, Prime Video keeps adding ideological spin to Indian stories

Over the recent years, Amazon Prime Video and several other OTT platforms have routinely exploited creative liberty to inject anti-Hindu and divisive ideological spins into Indian stories. Giving Bollywood’s conventional approach of depicting ‘upper-caste’, Tilak-wearing, and pious Hindu men as villains, OTT shows reframe real events through distorted lenses of Dalit victimhood, Muslim virtue and derision of upper caste Hindus. A new Amazon Prim…

Amazon Prime's 'Raakh' Distorts Ranga-Billa Case To Push Leftist Social-Justice Narrative

Amazon Prime Video’s latest crime series Raakh, marketed as being inspired by one of India’s most shocking criminal cases – the 1978 kidnapping and murder of siblings Geeta and Sanjay Chopra by Kuljeet Singh alias Ranga and Jasbir Singh alias Billa is facing criticism for allegedly replacing key historical figures and facts with fictional identities designed to fit a contemporary social-justice narrative. While filmmakers often take creative lib…