Beraks reveals the monsters religious discrimination turns us into

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Religious discrimination has always been an issue faced by our country. In our daily lives, we encounter some or the other incident that proves that end of the day we Indians are prejudiced deep within. The Partition led to a lot of mistrust between the Hindus and Muslims, who used to live in harmony before the British Raj. This kind of bigotry between the two religious sects has been seeded into our minds from generation to generation. India might have become a democracy, but our mindset is yet to change. 

This kind of religious discrimination has further led to religious intolerance by the major sect for the minor ones. Thus, there is a complete discord in mentalities that lead to stubbornness into accepting the other religions just as they are. Communal riots, public lynchings and even terrorism are all by products of this kind of discrimination. While everybody despises these acts, but nobody has been able to destroy the seed that gave rise to these trees that have rooted themselves so much into society that its hard to uproot now. The hypocrisy of society comes out when people are ready to blame the other section for all the wrongdoings instead of accepting their own fault. This leads to even more hatred and discrimination. And the vicious cycle keeps on continuing over each generation. 

‘Beraks’ is one such short film that showcases this discrimination in the form of a dark satire. It shows a Hindu priest, who along with his friends, decide to spend the night with a virgin sex worker, with the only condition that she is Muslim. The whole setup of the movie with the hymns sung and bells ringing at a nearby temple shows the hypocrisy of this godman who is supposed to worship women in the form of goddesses, but since the sex worker is a Muslim, she isn’t even considered human enough for their heinous actions. For a man devoted to God, one would expect compassion, but this priest shows none. Not only that, but his disgust for Muslims is so deep-rooted that he keeps insisting on only a Muslim girl and is ready to go to any measure to inflict atrocities on that young girl for his gratification. But when the film reaches its climax and the cat is out of the bag, he does not blame himself for his own actions but puts the blames on others. It shows the same hypocrisy that we keep displaying every now and then, that we are so blinded by our own prejudice that we do not see the fault in our actions and go around looking for others on whom we can put the blame on. ‘Beraks’ is an attempt to make people realize this very problem.