British Historian Gets Schooled After Claiming RRR’s Portrayal Of Britishers is ‘Dishonest and Ignorant’

RRR is surely one of the biggest movies ever of Indian Cinema, both in terms of box office collections and the worldwide attention it got. Recently the film received praises from renowned Hollywood directors such as James Gunn and Scott Derickson.

The SS Rajamouli’s directorial movie is based on the British colonial era and how two young men go head to head with the British Raj against their atrocities, as show in the movie.



The movie is based on the lives of two freedom fighters of India – Alluri Seetharama Raju and Komaram Bheem. Ram Charan portrayed the role of former while Jr NTR played the role of Bheem. The movie also featured Bollywood stars like Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn.

But the portrayal of the Britishers in the movie has not gone down well with historian Robert Tombs. He wrote an entire article on UK-based publication – The Spectator last weekend with the title ‘What Netflix’s RRR Gets Wrong About The British Raj’.

He wrote in the article:

“To portray British officials and soldiers roaming the country casually committing crimes is a sign of absolute ignorance or of deliberate dishonesty.”

He further wrote that the Britishers are shown as ‘Villains’:



“We (British) have played such an important role in the world over the last few centuries that we have accumulated enemies as well as friends. In many nationalist myths, we are cast in the role of villains. It’s a way that quite a few countries make up heroic stories about themselves.”

“So films like RRR do not reveal some hidden truth about the past, nor do they express genuine popular feelings. They try to stir up synthetic emotions…Netflix should be ashamed for promoting it,” he also said while targeting the popular OTT platform for streaming the movie.

But his opinion has not impressed the netizens for obvious reasons. Here’s how the people schooled Tombs over his remarks, and reminded of him of actual atrocities and war-crimes that were committed during the British rule:

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RRR has global countless records in the global and domestic box office collection and is continue to impress the audience both in theatres and streaming platform.

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