Vicky Kaushal's historical film 'Chhava', who dusted big films at the box office, is now engulfed in controversies. In fact, the descendants of Maratha Sardar Ganoji and Kanhoji Shirke have accused the film's makers of showing their ancestors wrongly. He says that the film hurts the reputation of his family and he threatened to file a defamation claim of Rs 100 crore against the producers. However, now the film's director Laxman Utekar has apologized saying that he has not used any surname in the film. Now NCP MLA Amol Mitkari has also commented on this film, saying that Soyrabai has been introduced incorrectly in this film as a villain.

Vicky Kaushal's film Chhawa may be about 'Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj', but the film is made with the reference of famous Marathi writer Shivaji Sawant's novel 'Chhava' and what is written in this novel Shown in his film. In fact, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and his son Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj are still considered a symbol of the culture and pride of Maharashtra. Even today, there is a special place for this father and son in the hearts of people here. This is the reason why our ancestors betrayed Sambhaji Maharaj, no family wants to take this charge on their head. The Shirke family is one of them. Because of 'Chhava', once again the controversy has erupted that who betrayed Sambhaji Maharaj and who was he, due to which Sambhaji Maharaj was caught by Aurangzeb?

What to say about 'Shirke Family'?

Bhushan Shirke, a descendant of the Shirke family, said in a special conversation with TV 9 about this whole matter that after the release of the film 'Chhava', people started asking them questions that did his family betray Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj? When we saw the film, we came to know that the history shown in this film is mostly a lie. Due to this film, our Shirke family has stained slander. We all decided that we will raise our voice against this whole matter only after this special day, honoring the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The film has been made very well, but we want the scenes that are slandered by our Shirke family in the film. We are not opposing the film. But we are not villains. My film's director has talked to Laxman Utekar, he also apologized, but I have requested him to remove the part from this film, which shows us wrong.

Further, Bhushan Shirke has said that even today there are relationships between Bhosle (Shivaji Maharaj's family) and the Shirke family, if we had done something wrong with Chhatrapati, everything would have deteriorated between the two families. Today, when our children go to school, they will also be asked whether we were traitors? This is the reason why we want our infamy things to be removed from this film.

What do historians say?

History researcher Indrajit Sawant says that Ganoji Shirke And talking about Kanhoji Shirke, they both met Aurangzeb before the attack on Sambhaji Maharaj. Kanhoji had gone earlier and joined Aurangzeb's army shortly after Sambhaji Maharaj's brother -in -law and his sister's husband Ganoji Kanhoji. Many years after this incident, in 1689, Sambhaji Maharaj was caught by the Mughals. The nickname of Ganoji and Kanhoji has not been taken anywhere in the film 'Chhava'. But it is definitely shown in the film that both of them had a big hand in catching Sambhaji Maharaj. It is also shown in the film that Sheikh Nizab Mukrabkhan was in Kolhapur and then these two traitors of Swarajya took this mine from there to Sangameshwar via Amba Ghat. This scene shown in the film is an injustice done on Ganoji Shirke. They must have met the Mughals, but the shame of her own sister's suhag to the Mughals in this way was not in the Marathas of that time.

Talking further about this, Indrajit Sawant says that we have a big evidence from history against what is shown in the film and that is that something has been written in French about this big Fituri. Actually, there was a small factory of French people in Rajpur near Sangameshwar, Rajpur was then a big port. At that time, Pondicherry was headed, Francisco Martin, he had received a news from this factory and he had written that news in his diary. He wrote in French. Sambhaji Maharaj was caught in February and he wrote about this in his diary around March. Its translation into Hindi is that Sambhaji Maharaj cheated his co-carrier because of his hatred towards the poet Kalash. Even if the name of that person was not written in this diary. But Annaji Datto was fulfilling the responsibility at that time. He was put under the feet of the elephant by Sambhaji Maharaj, but after his death, many of his companions were present there, where the Maharaj was caught by Sangameshwar, he was near Annaji Dutt. However, there are many theorys about who had a hand behind Sambhaji Maharaj.

Second theory to captive Sambhaji Maharaj

Like Shivaji Sawant's 'Chhava', writer Vishwas Patil has also written a novel named 'Sambhaji' on the life of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj. Talking about the arrest of Sambhaji Maharaj, he said that this person named Francisco Martin was not reliable at all. If you read his diary, then he has written many cheap things on Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj. To know the history of Marathas instead of going somewhere else, you should see Jede Shakavali, then you will know that there is an entry of 1660 on the number 34 number of Jede Shakavali, where it is written that Sambhaji Maharaj has helped the Kalash himself He was defeated by attacking the country. If you read the two-three months documents before Sambhaji Maharaj's captive of the Mughals, then you will know that Sambhaji Maharaj himself damaged the Shirke's Paga Mhanje stables. His property, the villages given to handle them were also snatched away from them. Even after the death of Sambhaji Maharaj, even during Tara Rani (Sambhaji Maharaj After that his half -brother Rajaram was made Chhatrapati by Yesubai and Tara was the wife of Rani Rajaram.) It is evidence that the property of Shirke has been taken away from him in many places. On the basis of these many evidence, it proves that today people who are trying to show a different picture were not like that.

Vishwas Patil further told that I have come from the place from which the Mughals came and caught them, you can not go there even today without any information and understanding. Therefore, it is certain that it is betrayed. Today everyone, how he was loyal to Sambhaji Maharaj, is stagnating others, I would only like to say that the way Sambhaji Maharaj was cheated by his Brahmin karkuns, in the same way, the Maratha chieftains too Was given and Muslim judges were also among those who cheated. There is also evidence of this. On October 1684, when there was a second for the second time against Sambhaji Maharaj, it included Manaji More, Gangadhar Pandit, Vasudev Pandit and Shahuji Somnath and as long as Maharaj was alive, they were all jailed, they were Rajbandi. The Chief Justice of Raigad, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, made Kazi Haider, as long as he was Maharaj, he remained a loyalist of the throne, but he met Aurangzeb during the time of Sambhaji Raja. Therefore, casteism should be stopped by taking the name of Sambhaji Maharaj and blowing mud on each other. Because every person is selfish, any caste or religion has nothing to do with him. He had no meaning with Swarajya. Otherwise, after the death of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, his son, like the sun, is not killed within just 9 years. Where Aurangzeb comes from 800 miles away, Sambhaji Maharaj is rotated for 36 days. But no village in Maharashtra comes forward to stop that Aurangzeb. This is a betrayal of Maharashtra with him.

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