Lyricist Madan Karky Clears Issue On Baahubali’s Derogatory Term

Young lyricist ' Madhan Karky Madhan Karky Vairamuthu was born on March 10, 1980 >> Read More... ' who penned the dialogues of the epic film Baahubali clears the controversy about the use of the word, “pagadaikku piranthavan” that hurts the feelings of the dalit rights outfit. Their sentiments created chaos last Wednesday as they thrown petrol bombs in a theatre where the movie was being shown that caused minor fire.

As per report, the Puratchi Puligal Iyakkam members arrived and started to throw bottles filled with petrol because they are against to the use of the word pagadai in the film. The term denotes Sakkiliayar people or a sub-caste of dalit which they considered offensive.

Madan made a statement and said, "I came to know through media sources that a word present in the dialogue of the movie 'Bahubali' hurt the sentiments of a few and that, this has led them to acts of violence. In the dialogue quoted to be the issue, "en thaayaiyum thaai naattaiyum endha pagadaikku piRandhavanum thoda mudiyaadhu...", I had used the term 'pagadaikku piranthavan' to mean a person born out of loss in a gambling game of dice. I did not know that it was the name of a community."

The lyricist also added, "In other scenes, the hero, who delivers this dialogue, is depicted as someone against casteism and even as a child, stands up for equality of all castes, against the norm of his nation. Such a protagonist would never talk ill of any caste. Our intention is not to speak ill of anyone. Just so that the invaders should not be equated to any caste or group, a new language was created for them. We have taken all possible efforts to avoid hurting the feelings of any group."