Why is Monkey Man not released in India?

A movie was going to be released on April 5. After seeing its trailer, it seemed that it would be great action-packed revenge.

There will be no fighter in the title only; instead, excellent action sequences will be seen in the entire movie, where five people are not flying at one punch and whether you shoot the hero or the missile does not make any difference; there is nothing like that.

So this movie was going to be released everywhere on April 5, but in India, the release date of the movie was postponed. Now why is this so?

If you still haven't understood, I am talking about Dev Patel's directorial debut movie, Monkey Man.

Dev Patel has made this film based on the story he heard from his father in his childhood, which was inspired by Hanuman Ji, which represents courage, strength, or fighting.

The story of Monkey Man is about a boy who lived with his mother, but then some rich people took everything from him. Now, after growing up, he participates in an underground fight club wearing a gorilla mask on his face, and he wants to take revenge on those people who have entered politics.

Because of this whole revenge story, there is a lot of violence and a lot of core action in the movie, which is no less than a treat for action-watching audiences.

And Ranbir Kapoor's Animal movie has made everyone crazy about action, especially in India.

Let me tell you that Dev Patel was working on the Monkey Man movie for ten years, during which he also left many of his other projects.

A further interesting thing is that this movie was shot with very limited resources at COVID-19 times; they had to be clever with how they filmed, like changing actors' appearances in fight scenes and using the same actors for different roles. You might notice a character with hair in one scene and then bald in another. 

They even reused furniture to save money. Surprisingly, they filmed one scene using just an iPhone.

We learned from Dev Patel how you can make a strong action movie even on a low budget.

Dev Patel had called Zakir Hussain for two weeks for fight training scenes, and there is a great training sequence on Tabla. 

Monkey Man was initially going to be released directly on Netflix Tudum, but it was not allowed to be released even on Netflix Tudum.

When comedian and director Jordan Peele saw this movie, it got him so excited that he invested all his money to give this movie an all-over-the-world theatrical release, and then he went to talk to Universal, and Universal agreed to release Monkey Man.

I'm highlighting these production hurdles to underscore the immense effort Dev Patel invested in this movie. Despite his passion and hard work, the CBFC once again banned the film.

Now, why so?

The CBFC has not yet given any certification to Monkey Man, and the problem is that the movie has a lot of violent scenes, even sex scenes, and references to Hinduism.

Also, there are many political remarks in the movie, like Bhagwan Rang, which represents the BJP party.

The main issue of the movie is that there are so many violent scenes in the movie that you may get disturbed, but this is the point of violent scenes: for how long will we continue to see the same average Dal Chawal scenes where five to ten people are killed by one punch of the hero?

And I notice that sometimes the hero does not even touch the villain, but still the villain falls away.

Now CBFC will either cut or hide the main violent scenes in which this movie is made.

The second main reason for not allowing the Monkey Man movie to be released is that the sentiments of Hinduism are being hurt because the character of Shobita in the movie is that of a sex worker; she is a sex worker; this is not a problem; her name is Sita; this is a problem.

In 2022, a movie was released called Siya in which a girl is kidnapped, then she is tied up and repeatedly abused. The name of the girl in the picture was Siya.

Now, we all believe that a name does not hurt sentiments, but it is also true that Dev Patel could have avoided that name earlier.

The most important thing due to which the movie has not gotten the certificate is that the movie is being shown as anti-BJP to a great extent.

Due to the presence of saffron color on the posters, etc., in the political rally scene, it is being said that this color cannot be used in the movie because elections are about to come and this can have a bad effect on the party.

There is a scene in the movie where the news footage playing in the background has created a problem because that news was showing India in such a way that a lot of violence is happening even with the trans or minority peaceful community in India, and now elections are just around the corner, so political parties do not want to take any risks.

On one hand, there are some references to the transgender community in the movie, which the community has already abandoned.

Originally, Dev Patel's Monkey Man was bought by Netflix, but after listening to the points of the CBFC and after watching the movie, they also felt with their own eyes that this movie could offend Indian right-wing viewers, due to which Netflix boycotted it.

No, I mean, Netflix has backed out; that boycott is our job.

Now, Netflix also knows very well how dangerous the boycott Netflix hashtag can prove to be for them.

When a movie is made and you know where you have to release it,  you have to pay a lot of attention to keeping the sentiments of that region in mind so as not to hurt them.

And along with that, we and CBFC should also give some creative liberty to the artist so that we can see some good art; that is, we should not see the same thing that we have been seeing for so many years.

At present, the news is that Dev Patel's Monkey Man has been postponed, and as soon as the movie becomes peaceful, according to the CBFC,  they will give it the green light.

After the changes, Monkey Man was told that it would be released in India on April 26th, but as of now, there is no address for its release.

Now different theories are being made, but nothing has been revealed officially.

So what do you think of this whole scenario? Who is right and who is wrong, and what reaction do you think Monkey Man might get in India? Please tell me in the comments below, and whom do you support, left-wing or right? Well, I support the upper.