Ananth Mahadevan’s Phule goes down the list of Key Milestones Associated with the Great Reformer. The Hindi-language Phule, co-written by Mahadevan and Muazzam Beg, dutifully dramatises the inciting ...

Bollywood seldom tells stories of Dalit assertion. It mostly sees the marginalised as victims who need the compassion and cover of an upper caste saviour. Perhaps, that’s why the inspirational story ...

Jyotiba Phule did in the 19th century what Amish Tripathi did in the 21st century. Both wrote mytho-fictions, but for very ...

In his seminal work Gulamgiri or Slavery published in 1873, Jyotirao Phule begins the preface with a scathing indictment against the upper caste Brahmins: “Since the advent of the rule of Brahmins for ...

Writer-director Ananth Narayan Mahadevan bookends his 129-minute biopic on social reformers and educationists Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule with the events of 1897. Poona is devastated by the plague.

The release of Ananth Mahadevan’s film Phule about the 19th-century anti-caste activists Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule was delayed this week as the filmmaker was asked to edit out overt ...

“I have a dream… ek aisa samaj ho jahan koi pradhan na ho, sab saman ho” – Jyotirao Phule, Indian social activist, businessman, anti-caste social reformer, who fought for reform change and women ...

The latest biopic on Jyotiba Phule, whose 198th birth anniversary is on April 11, has come at a time when the Department of Taking Offence is super-active. Utkarsh Mishra feels it will be interesting ...

Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule was born on January 3, 1831, in a village called Naigaon in the Satara district of Maharashtra. She was a feminist and social reformer who fought for women’s empowerment ...

Jyotiba Phule was born on April 11, 1827, in the Mali caste, a community traditionally occupied with gardening and floristry. In 1848, Phule was invited to attend a wedding of one of his Brahmin ...