Why Manoj Muntashir's viral video should be an eye-opener for 'We Indians'?

Mumbai: Going by the title of the video – 'Choose Your Legacy and Your Heroes!!!'; Rather than tagging it as 'controversial', I would call it as an 'eye opener'. Manoj Muntashir, undoubtedly, is one of the ace lyricists the Bollywood industry has right now and his words are as sharp as a sword. In his latest video, he has categorically explained how we, Indians, are losing our legacy by wrongly giving significance to outsiders.

The video questions every Indian why we glorify Mughal Emperors when they had massacred people. On context of no civil war for 200 years in the Mughal ruling, Muntashir shared examples of late Saddam Hussein and North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un. He recalled the Tulsi Das's famous lines – 'One cannot rule without spreading fear' and said that Mughals followed it for their gains but in actual, the lines go in a complete different sense when it was penned for Lord Ram.

The 'Teri Mitti' lyricist also gave examples of Afghanistan and Indonesia how they adopted the Indian history despite being the Islamic nations. The agony, however, is that Muntashir is facing trolls from his co-lyricists and industry fraternity for 'spitting venom' and spreading 'hatred'.

Names like Actress Richa Chadha, Filmmaker Neeraj Ghaywan, Lyricist Puneet Sharma, Author Devdatt Patnaik and several others have took to Twitter to criticize Muntashir for seeding hatred. However, there is a section of society who finds that presenting facts cannot be classified as spreading hate.

India has a history of 'warriors' and surprisingly, we still want our coming generations to portray Mughal Emperors as 'heroes'. While those calling it as 'spewing anti-Muslim venom', should also remember that every Hindu burn the effigy of 'Raavan' every year despite knowing that he was a 'Brahmin' and a part of Lord Bramha.