My films call for dignity to marginalised: Pa Ranjith
“My ideal, Ambedkar, was also inspired by Ayyankali,†Mr. Ranjith said.
Thiruvananthapuram: Director Pa Ranjith has said that he chooses commercial movies to ensure that the political message in his films reaches the maximum number of people. Mr Ranjith, the director of Rajanikanth starrer 'Kabali', while speaking at the seminar on Mahatma Ayyankali, the architect of Modern Kerala, at PWD Guest House here on Sunday said that he believed that social change could be brought about only through art.
He said that the decision to choose Rajanikanth to deliver the lines on the politics of Ambedkar wearing modern dress was a conscious one. He wanted the dialogue to be taken up by the masses so the message of Ambedkar reached them. “I was in tears when I heard Rajanikanth rendering the dialogue. I had a suspicion that the censor board would cut the dialogue from the film. However, the dialogue got the clearance of the censor board,” Mr Ranjith said.
“My films are about dignity to the people from the margins. It is not dignity at a personal level. Kabali was about social dignity”, Mr Ranjith said. He said that people like Ayyankali were the real heroes of the people. According to him, Ayyankali was entitled to the title of Mahatma. “My ideal, Ambedkar, was also inspired by Ayyankali,” Mr. Ranjith said.