I would call it a force of nature that I got to watch two movies in two days which increased my intensity towards insight. These questions always popped up in my mind whenever I hear a incident or story based on historic base. 'What is the probability of those incidents being true?' , 'What if the man conveyed the incident to world was an ardent follower one party?', 'What if the whole thing was a hoax?' and many more.

These two movies tightened those thoughts with their depiction of Ramayana. One is Raman Raghav 2.0 and another is Kaala. 

We have been told multiple aspects of being good Ram and bad Raavan. The grammar of being anything can be defined easily.  But we should understand the fact that they are defined by us or one among us. The two movies stand out by breaking those grammars.

Let us take the first movie, Raman Raghav 2.0, released in 2016. The whole point of movie is to shout out that there is equal amount of good and evil in everyone. For the will, they take analogy from Ramayana to show how similar Ram and Raavan are by depicting them with two characters. Interestingly, they both fall into same pool of thoughts. Though you would not see the direct metaphors in the movie, there are nuances which would help you in connecting the dots. Even you will find a character that talks with hanuman and praises Raavan for his heroics.

The second movie, Kaala that released very recently, goes multiple steps ahead by depicting Ram as villain and Raavan as hero. Unlike the previous movie, you will find multiple metaphors and symbols to give you a new syllabus of Ramayana. This movie breaks all those grammars and myths behind White & Black, Clean & Dirt and ofcourse Ram & Raavan too. There is a scene where the antagonist addresses the protagonist as Raavan to which an acquaintance asks 'Will Ram kill Raavan?'. And he cunningly answers 'That's what Vaalmiki had written right..!'

Here the man in question is neither Ram nor Raavan. It is Vaalmiki. I could easily relate this to present day scenario when I get to read different versions of same news in media.

I am glad that Ramayana is evolving and Cinema is evolving. We should evolve too so as to tender a end card to this judging game with what we hear.