Why should we embellish Savarkar’s life when it already has so much drama?
“Gandhi wasn’t a bad man,” goes one of the opening lines of the new trailer of a Hindi biopic on Veer Savarkar. “But,” it continues, “if he hadn’t stuck to his insistence on non-violence, India would have got freedom 35 years earlier.” That is, in 1912.
But Gandhi was in South Africa at that time and was yet to bring his ideas to India; he returned to India only in 1915. Savarkar himself was in the Andamans, serving out his 50-year prison sentence from 1911 onwards.
Savarkar: When filmmakers play fast and loose with history - Indiatimes.com
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