Hyderabad, Oct.13 (NSS): BJP State senior leader Gudur Narayana Reddy was felicitated on Sunday at the annual ‘Alai Balai’ program being organized by Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya.
Reddy has been felicitated for producing a movie on the atrocities of the Razakars in Hyderabad State from August 1947 to September 1948.
It may be recalled here that Gudur Narayana Reddy has produced the “Razakar: The silent genocide of Hyderabad”. The movie was released this year all over the country in Telugu, Hindi, Marathi and other Indian languages.
Narayana Reddy has come forward courageously to make a movie on the atrocities of Razakars in Hyderabad when anyone from Telangana or from other parts of the country dared to take up such a challenging initiation.
He felt that there was a dire need to make a movie on the Razakars since the present generation does not know atrocities committed by them and about the heroes who have fought against them.
“Even some of the Telanganites do not know that it was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who ensured the merger of Hyderabad State into Telangana. Patel’s role was not recognized and not hailed in Telangana region for decades,” says Reddy.
The film was made to enlighten the people of Telangana and citizens of India about the Razakars, police action, and merger of Hyderabad. Patel was the hero of the movie, he explained.
He says but for the efforts of Iron Man of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Hyderabad would have become another Kashmir. He said the struggle for liberation of Hyderabad has become vociferous after Indian Independence.
With the spontaneous participation of people chanting Vande Matram and with the demand of the merger of the Hyderabad, the Indian Union, the struggle transformed itself into a massive people’s movement.
The State of Hyderabad under the Nizam included the whole of present day Telangana, the Marathwada region in Maharashtra that included the districts of Aurangabad, Beed, Hingoli, Jalna, Latur, Nanded, Osmanabad, Parbhani and districts of Kalaburagi, Bellary, Raichur, Yadgir, Koppal, Vijayanagara and Bidar in current day Karnataka.
