Komaram Bheem has once
again revolted against the state and central government’s oppressive culture.
Popular writer and
actor M. Bhoopal Reddy, popularly known as Bhoopal, who acted in the title role
of Komaram Bheem film has announced that he is returning his Kendra Sahitya Akademi
award in protest against the ‘communal politics’ of the government at Centre
and sinking space for freedom of expression, humanity and democracy under this
government. This was the first protest from the artist community in the state.
He also returned his
Ugadi award given for his contribution in literature by the state government in
protest against the killing of Shurti in an encounter in Warangal in which
Shruti and another Naxalite Vidyasagar killed.
Mr Bhoopal who lives in Hyderabad was
recipient of Kendra Sahitya Akademy award-2011 for his children book ‘Uggupalu’, compilation of 90 children’s stories.
Speaking to Deccan
Chronicle, Bhoopal said ‘he wanted to be a Komuram Bheem in his real life not
just in reel life and added that he was proved this with his gesture’.
He is upset with the killing
of writer M. M Kalburgi of Karnataka who was also a Kendra Sahitya Akademy
Award winner and nobody was arrested even after 46 days of his killing.
Bhoopal said Shruti who
was killed in Warangal was his friend’s daughter. He was told that she was
killed in fake encounter. He wondered what happened to the promise of an encounter-
free Telangana by the rulers and observed that there was huge unrest among the
students and youth who fought for the separate telangana state and hundreds of farmers
committing suicide.
‘Much corruption is prevalent
in all the government offices and works are kept pending if not paid bribes to
the officials or employees which people of the telangana never expected in the separate
Telangana state’, he observed.
Bhoopal had played lead
roles in other famous film ‘Mabhoomi’ directed by Goutam Ghosh and ‘Daasi’ by
B. Narsing Rao. Both the films were made with the theme of fighting against then
feudal land lords and depicting then feudal agrarian and social relations in
the Telangana.
He had close association with the Adivasis of Adilabad district and influenced much with their culture and traditions which he studied and researched to live up to Komuram Bheem’s role in the film directed by Alllani Sridhar.
Komaram Bheem film bagged
two Nandi awards and Sarojini Devi award for movie on National Integration before
its official release. The film was produced with the financial assistance of
ITDA, Utnoor in 1980’s
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