{"id":3679,"date":"2016-05-05T19:31:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T14:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:39:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:09:50","slug":"amazon-prime-mirzapur-lynching-women-violence-masochism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/?p=3679","title":{"rendered":"What Mirzapur Gets Right About India\u2019s Long Relationship With Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>n the third episode of the Amazon Prime series <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mirzapur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Ali Fazal\u2019s Guddu exclaims, \u201cSabse chutiya qaum hoti hai baap ki.\u201d The crispness of Guddu\u2019s statement at that point, its low-handedness, cut through the visual barrier and grinned at me like a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/yoga-exercise-workout\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fitness <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">coach telling a crude joke \u2013 it\u2019s kind of true, but don\u2019t say it out loud. Not for nothing were India\u2019s men \u2013 raised as poorly as they were assigned role models (father figures) \u2013 looking to hide in the wake of #MeToo revelations. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mirzapur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is filled with similar characters only rawer, closer to the soil. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The series swims ear-to-ear with witticisms throughout, assuaging doubt with the kind of rugged philosophy that only a country at odds with modernity could offer. The show\u2019s frothy mix of hate, aggression, and masochism may feel distant to the urban viewer at first. But it grows on you, kind of like the climate of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/india-crime-parental-abuse-physical-violence-children-parents\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">violence <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and villainy that has grown on us in the last few years. There are no heroes, there never were, this moment is trying to tell us.<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mirzapur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is set in the real town of Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. Much like the soreness that warms its masculine pulse, its scrotal girth, the series\u2019 echoes of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/jagga-jasoos-ranbir-kapoor-singing-manhood-coming-of-age-bollywood\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">manhood <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">feel all too real as well. The show has at its heart an outrageously graceful Pankaj Tripathi (King of Mirzapur, he is called) as Kaleen Bhaiya. Around him an assembly of solid actors emit performances that, though weighty, can also feel familiar. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are stock characters: A petulant and privileged son; a hammer-headed vagrant; his meekly built <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/first-person\/siblings-day-india-allahabad-bhai-dooj-bhau-beej-india-festival-raksha-bandhan\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brother<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; a loyalist; a lone moralist, and so on. Kaleen Bhaiya runs a carpeting business as cover for his actual work of manufacturing kattas or desi guns. The show has women, but largely carved through the imagination of men, eroticised and then sidestepped for sake of the action. <\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>As long as we keep defining savages as others \u2013 not as ourselves \u2013 our Netflix and Prime accounts will continue to make us feel elevated, untouched.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a man\u2019s world, alright, and perhaps that here is the point.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than anything, though, it\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mirzapur\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> violence that seems uncomfortably close. The show\u2019s lip forever drips with blood, its texture permanently imprinted with sprayed guts. But hardly any of it surprises; in fact, it oddly feels like a subtext of present-day India, rotten yet pure. Subconsciously, perhaps, it is this violence that tugs us toward shows like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mirzapur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, AND toward its most violent men. Our most important debates, our biggest <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/outdoors\/lavasa-ghost-town-india-vacation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nightmares <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as a country in the last few years have originated in the India\u2019s morgues, in death, in loss. The many lynchings of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mirzapur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is nothing but the face of India\u2019s violent core. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good guys don\u2019t last in memory, but they probably don\u2019t last a day in reality. Our news feeds are assigned to clutch at poison. From our reality shows to our fiction, violence \u2013 verbal or otherwise \u2013 is programmed to pluck the fattest pigs dropping out of the sky, the ones that will make the loudest <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/empty-restaurants-make-no-noise\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">noise<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when they eventually hit the ground. Similarly, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mirzapur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> isn\u2019t high art, but for each of its fingers that either grease the insides of a trigger or the outside of a woman\u2019s bra, it feels ceaselessly entertaining. All because its characters bring alive things we subconsciously refuse to recognise. <\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1542719036.jpg\" alt=\"Mirzapur\" width=\"663\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41725\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>The show has women, but largely carved through the imagination of men, eroticised and then sidestepped for sake of the action.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credits: Amazon Prime<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, most of the show\u2019s cussing, its apparatus is near-accurate for the way most men in India discuss women. In its opening scene itself, the show\u2019s most virulent character Munna Bhaiya, played by Divyendu Sharma, beams his chest awkwardly at a middle-aged <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/metoo-women-refuse-to-believe-other-women\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">woman <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at a wedding procession. I immediately recalled the thousands of occasions when I had witnessed men, men I know, do the same. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If our pop culture echoes our moment, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mirzapur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> echoes the kind of mannerism that has seeped into the roots of this country. It is, of course, easy to consume such stories as pure hyperbolic entertainment, deceptively separated from us by urbane habits of drinking green tea and buying toned milk. But if we were to be<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> really<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> honest,we\u2019d know these distinctions exist only in our minds. As long as we keep defining savages as others \u2013 not as ourselves \u2013 our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/netflix-books-readers-block\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netflix <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Prime accounts will continue to make us feel elevated, untouched. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Except that we aren\u2019t. Sometimes the gutters just come up, overflow, and even though for a fleeting moment that momentary excavation of the evil inside us feels exciting, it really isn\u2019t. <\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mirzapur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will certainly be criticised, as it should be, for a number of things. It is nothing new, many will say, as if violence needs to evolve in pedigree, in design, to be appealing. If mobs and prejudiced vagrants are the norm, a Kaleen Bhaiya stands to benefit from each infraction, each compromise. \u201cHarami neta nahi hota, janata hoti hai. Jo paisa phenkta hai uske saath so jaati hai [Politicians aren\u2019t bastards; the voters are for getting into bed with whoever throws money at them],\u201d a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/indian-politicians-sexual-harassment-me-too\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">politician <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">says in the show. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This blood and gore are our new authentic, because <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mirzapur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> distils the present.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It wouldn\u2019t surprise me that the current vein of violence, both on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/serial-screenshotter-screenshot-superpowers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">screen <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and on our streets continues. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mirzapur <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pulls you toward the present, away from the cornucopia of the past, the flatulence of the future toward a world where \u201csab deemak hain, zehar chaat gaye hain\u201d.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Prime\u2019s Mirzapur is a frothy mix of hate, aggression, and masochism. 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