Vicky Kaushal-starrer Chhaava has a valuable lesson: there is no need to sugarcoat history. Hence, it’s an important film that you should not shy away from—do not look away when the unimaginable brutality that Aurangzeb inflicted upon Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj unfolds on screen.

When two red scorching iron rods advance towards Sambhaji Maharaj’s eyes, do not close your eyes. Cry, if you must—but let your tears carry the weight of generations of Hindu trauma and centuries of forced silence, and also of the muted history of Hindu genocide and slavery.

Feel the void, the cold, the unrelenting evil in Aurangzeb’s dead stare. Watch Aurangzeb’s daughter, frigid and remorseless, sanctioning torture with the chilling detachment........

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