Ram Ke Naam (1992) Online

A portrayal into the BJP's suspicious moves during the events around Babri Mosque demolition in december 1992. This documentary explores the other side of the coin. A well made documentary with a purpose, was lost for more than six years in legal battles against BJP. Though the world got a chance to see it late, it is still a very informative documentary, leaving a big question mark on ethics of BJP as a national party.

One of the best Indian documentaries i have ever seen. It took nearly six of legal dispute before it was finally aired on doordarshan(Indian state television),and still created a furore. A hard hitting documentary for those who seek the truth about the issue.

It deals with the the politicization of the Ayodhya dispute and it's influence on the rise of militant Hindutva, also the impressions the dispute made on various communities. It shows the common man's apathy towards the whole dispute and the inherent brotherhood between men being challenged by communal forces. It also questions the integrity of the religious leaders supporting the cause, and shows the indifference of politicians to the plight of the common man. Another important point made in the documentary is the caste divide that exists on the issue.

This is another biased, anti-Hindu propaganda film. It repeats the lies of the pseudo-secularists and Islamist obscurantists that Babur was a peaceful warlord who never demolished Hindu temples (a practise common among Islamic iconoclasts), and that there was no Ram temple at the hill in Ayodhya (even though the history of this temple is very well attested in historical sources, and the archaeological record). It says nothing about the attacks on Hindus in Godhra and elsewhere, where 60 Hindus were burned alive in a train carriage, it says nothing about the history falsifications of the pseudo-secularists who denied the historical and scientific record. Yet, today, Islamists are still destroying temples and non-Islamic shrines not only in Asia, but also in Timbuktu and Iraq, where Islamic State destroyed the tomb of Jonah. Why we have no documentary filmmakers who cover real issues like the Kashmiri Pandit genocide with great Zeal?

In any case, there are some very good books on the Ayodhya debate, viz. the books of Koenraad Elst ("Ayodhya: The case against the Temple"), Sita Ram Goel ("Hindu Temples, what happened to them?" the most important book on the Ayodhya affair), Meenakshi Jain("Rama and Ayodhya", the standard book on the Ayodhya debate), Harsh Narain ("The Ayodhya Temple Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources"), B.B. Lal ("Rama") and others on Ayodhya. For anyone willing to learn, there is indeed a lot to learn by investigating this topic.

One of the Hindus in the film is shown unable to answer a question about historicity of Rama's date of birth. The Hindus should have asked him in return what his great grandfather's date of birth was. If he had failed to answer this simple question would it have meant that Patwardhan had no ancestors? Another of the stupid, biased questions was about the castes of the Hindus. This is how the British divided the Indians. The film only showed the Muslim victims, never the Hindu victims.

By far most of the victims in inter-religious violence in South Asia were Hindus (the worst ones being the Bangladesh Liberation War violence and the Partition violence, but also the violence in Kashmir, and elsewhere in South Asia), but you wouldn't know it from this film, which tries to suggest that there are only Muslim victims.