Abstract
Indian history is tainted with episodes of bigotry towards the socially, economically, and politically downtrodden indigenous. In order to perform a fair exploration on the extent of this discrimination and the rise of the movement called Naxalism, a film was produced in 2012 by Prakash Jha titled ‘Chakravyuh’. The paper aims at intensively analyze the subject of the challenges of the indigenous movement in the backdrop of the film. The film puts its spotlight on the so-called Naxalites drawing parallels between the movement and the great Indian epic of Mahabharata. The film portrays that to protect what is rightfully theirs the indigenous majorly the scheduled tribes and castes as they are referred to today, have turned into Naxalites who are forced to use violence against their own countrymen in order to fight against abject poverty and relentless exploitation suffered by them for ages mutely.
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