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Mumbai, On the occasion of Chatrapati <keyword id="19988037" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="shivaji-maharaj" source="keywords">Shivaji Maharaj</keyword> Jayanti on Monday, it was announced that <keyword id="19915083" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="riteish-deshmukh" source="keywords">Riteish Deshmukh</keyword> will direct and feature in the historical action drama '<keyword id="20641344" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="raja-shivaji" source="keywords">Raja Shivaji</keyword>'. Riteish said: "In the annals of history, there emerges a figure that transcends mere mortal existence-a legend, an icon, an eternal flame of inspiration. <keyword id="19966480" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="chhatrapati-shivaji-maharaj" source="keywords">Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj</keyword> is not a mere historical figure; he is an emotion, a timeless saga of valour, and a beacon of hope that has illuminated hearts for over three and a half centuries." He added that his deepest aspiration has always been to immortalise Chhatrapati <keyword id="20341685" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="shivaji" source="keywords">Shivaji</keyword> Maharaj's awe-inspiring journey on cinema. "A journey of epic proportions, depicting the rise of a boy who defied the invincible, sparking the flames of Swarajya. A rebel whose courage knew no bounds, he didn't just rule land, he conquered hearts, earning the endearing title of 'Raja Shivaji'. " Jio Studios and Mumbai Film Company have come together for the bilingual film that brings to life the journey of a young Shivaji who rebelled against the mighty powers to be and went on to become the revered Raja Shivaji and establish Swarajya. Genelia Deshmukh, producer, Mumbai Film Company added: "Bringing the epic life of Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on celluloid has been our long standing passion. We embark on a noble quest, not merely to produce a film, but to weave a narrative thread that enriches the tapestry of our culture and history. 'Raja Shivaji' is our biggest dream." The epic saga, which will be in Hindi and Marathi, will have music composed by maestros Ajay-Atul, while cinematography will be helmed by iconic visual storyteller Santosh Sivan, marking his debut in Marathi cinema. Sharing their heartfelt sentiments on composing the soundtrack of Raja Shivaji, acclaimed music duo Ajay-Atul said: "Even after decades, there is only one king on this Earth, whose presence remains eternally alive in our heart, breath, blood. We are excited as the story of his valour, the thrill of his prowess is poised to resonate globally through this cinematic endeavour. "For any artist, to be able to contribute to the legacy of our King is a source of immense pride. We consider ourselves very fortunate to have this golden opportunity to be a part of the homage to the revered king - Raja Shivaji."

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Prologue: The history of the <keyword id="81273" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="British-Raj" source="Orion">British Raj</keyword> in <keyword id="3658" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword> is so vast and so full of life that no movie – be it the action-heavy RRR, a gamified Lagaan or even the many passionate Bhagat Singh movies – could scratch the surface of it. But an American and a Frenchman paired up to achieve this in their book ‘<keyword id="400044" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Freedom-at-Midnight" source="Orion">Freedom at Midnight</keyword>’. It’s the story of India that many Indians know little about. For years, I have regaled many with the unbelievable anecdotes from the book, which is soon to be made into a web series. As we complete <keyword id="2177193" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="75-years-of-independence" source="Orion">75 years of independence</keyword>, I believe a brief summary of this epic is in order for we all need to know the history of how we got here today, breathing free in a country we can call our own. <div type="image" title="India at 75" msid="93508033" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;India at 75&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> A century and a half after Vasco da Gama discovered India, most of Europe had given up bland meals, and now pepper mills are on every dinner table. But India remained a free country only until the 1600s. That’s when Dutch traders decided to raise the rates of a pound of pepper by five shillings — a move that made a cartel of Englishmen receive an official sanction from Queen Elizabeth I to exclusively trade in all countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope. The company, called East India Company (EIC), also the world’s first company to issue equity shares – kickstarted a reign of evil, by a race which believed was ‘destined to govern and subdue’, according to Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre’s classic Freedom at Midnight. <div type="image" title="Freedom At Midnight by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre" msid="93508039" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Freedom At Midnight by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> The wolf of this yet to be formed Wall Street was Captain William Hawkins, a seaman who was more of a pirate than an explorer. He soon found himself in the court of Jahangir, in an empire so vast and wealthy that his own Queen would have appeared to be the ruler of a provincial hamlet in contrast. Queen, Kipling and memsahibs EIC’s coffers filled but India, with its numerous territories and squabbles, would not let him hold on to their policy of ‘trade not territory’. But white supremacy is to prevail amongst ‘lesser breeds without law’ as Jungle Book writer Rudyard Kipling puts it. Even the British born writer believed that the right to rule Indians was placed on British soldiers by “the inscrutable decree of the providence”. The British shouldered it and region after region was lured by treasures if not treachery, weak and powerful kings won with weak enemies. The great Maratha Shivaji himself was known to have admired the British who fought for their honour, as he laid siege on Surat. Droves of young English men arrived in this strange land – with men in sagging dhotis and bare-armed women in sarees, and travelled the length and breadth of the country into villages with rations and letters that proclaimed their rights. And, they were all taught one principle - The English ran the country but they dwell apart. Memsahibs in India started running a very large version of Downton Abbey – with dinner parties that boasted of a servant per guest. They also set the tone for the Victorian era social seclusion – probably to keep their men away from the exotic temptations of the state. But it also made the British much different from many rulers that made India their home. Also, they were sending away taxes they collected from them back to the crown, as Indians starved. The British in India lived it up, served by coolies, and none were ‘better than Gunga Din’, a poetic character that saves an Englishman. They hunted tigers and killed ‘almost all’ cheetahs, the smallest of the big cats - which are now extinct in India, thanks to the Raj. They were having champagne in silver buckets and golfing, in style – golf arrived in India 30 years before New York. They also built the world’s highest golf course at 11,000 feet on the Himalayas. Almost a century after India became a British colony directly under the Queen’s rule, after the devastating Second World War, the country’s parliament voted to ‘leave the country’. George VI was sad that he had let go of a country he always wanted to visit but couldn’t. To ensure there was a smooth transfer of power that didn't lead to anarchy, he chose his handsome cousin, who was known as much for his charm as his military prowess. The former trait would serve Louis Mountbatten more than the latter, as he became the lord and the last viceroy of India, as he took over what his predecessor called, ‘Operation Madhouse’. <div type="image" title="Louis Mountbatten" msid="93508078" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Louis Mountbatten&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> The new-age Buddha and Christ Elsewhere in another continent and another British colony, a young lawyer who was an utter failure in Bombay, landed in South Africa and to his own surprise found success. He profusely read Henry Thoreau and Leo Tolstoy and the Gujarati brain of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was working in wonderful ways. <div type="image" title="Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi" msid="93508085" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> When the British government irked him by closing Transvaal borders to India, he led a movement of Thoreau’s civil disobedience with over 2,000 people that included women and children. He added his own twist – non-violence and he brought it back to India. Now called Gandhigiri, his principles continue to inspire generations across continents. The man who took a vow of poverty, had held on to his Ingersoll watch for years until it was stolen when he was travelling in a train. He was moved to tears as he told this story with child-like pain to Lord Mountbatten, but his loss was short-lived. The man who stole it, returned it and begged his forgiveness – which was given with a hug and a chuckle. Gandhigiri had taken over India at the time of Mountbatten’s arrival. Mountbatten knew that this man who Winston Churchill sneered at, ‘as a half-naked fakir’ was not to be taken lightly. After all, Gandhi had already sent back Sir Richard Cripps without a deal, refusing UK’s offer during the war to rule India as a British dominion. Goat curd and surgical precision Mountbatten called it Operation Seduction and while he forged a great friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi was another soul altogether. He insisted on eating his own goat curd at the Viceroy House, took prayer breaks and insisted that India should remain one – keep the baby alive instead of cutting it into two. Jinnah, however, was all vanity, which was deeply hurt when he received fewer seats during the 1937 provincial elections. He demanded a Muslim state. India would be divided with surgical precision, he promised Mountbatten. The King’s cousin, the book says, dealt with him like a sailor rather than a statesman but Mountbatten knew that he could not move the unmoved, and most of Congress were in favour of two nations. Rooms full of rubies and a pen pistol But it took India’s iron man, Vallabhai Patel, to keep the rest of India intact and convince over 500 rajas, princes, nawabs and nizams as they called themselves to shift their allegiance from the crown to the nation. Stronger than the unity statue built in his honour, Patel continued summing up a case for the jury even after he was handed a note saying that his wife passed away. <div type="image" title="The Statue Of Unity" msid="93508178" hostid="261" sizebytes="162276" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The Statue Of Unity&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Patel and the career bureaucrat, V.P. Menon, executed their operation seduction to gain control over men who were already seduced by sex, sport and the worst of all maladies - boredom. Most of them amused themselves with Lancaster pistols made of solid gold, rubies the size of pigeon eggs and working train sets on silver rails. The Jeff Bezos of that time, known to be the world’s richest, was the Nizam of Hyderabad, who had rooms full of precious stones eaten away by rats as the miser spent nothing and resorted to smoking the leftover cigarette butts of his departed guests! Most of the eccentric rajas sided with India – even Hari Singh of Kashmir, who wanted to be independent, was worn down by logic that a landlocked state would forever remain in a state of war. But the young Maharaja of Jodhpur, certain that his lavish life wouldn’t be approved by the Congress socialists, tried to go over to Jinnah’s side. But Menon’s watchful spies got wind of it, cornered him, and the Maharaja held a pen-pistol to the bureaucrat's forehead until Mountbatten confiscated it – and used it later to liven parties back home. Cursed by the stars Mountbatten was warned by the most popular astrologist of the time that August 15, 1947 was a ‘day cursed by stars’. He, however, chose sentiment over astrology – the date was the anniversary of the day Burma won against Japan, a war he was part of. It wasn’t just the viceroy, even Nehru and Jinnah did not see the bloodbath that followed. What stopped them from seeing what was to come was their own tolerance and atheism. Communal passions ran so high and so deep that right after the Union Jack came off the Viceroy house, Punjab and Bengal fell into a riotous rage – something a wily Gandhi always knew. That’s why the 78-year-old spent the midnight far away from the celebrations, spinning and lamenting the night India became independent, 75 years back. Before we let you go, here's what we like you to know-Innovaccer's solutions have been transforming the healthcare industry their unique approach to data analytics. 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Thane, Apr 21 () The Thane Municipal Corporation onTuesday sealed Lokmanya-Savarkar Nagar in the city, after over50 people attended the funeral of a COVID-19 patient in thearea, an official said.In an order issued on Tuesday, deputy municipalcommissioner Ashok Burpulle stated that Lokmanya-SavarkarNagar, which comes under ward no 6, will be sealed after alarge number of people attended the funeral of a COVID-19patient on Sunday.All establishments, apart from pharmacies and dairyshops, will remain shut till April 26, the order stated.Burpulle also sought help from the local police insealing the ward and preventing movement of people andvehicles in the area.Over 50 people had attended the funeral of a COVID-19patient at Raja Shivaji Vidyalaya, the official said, addingthat there was a possibility of increase in the number ofhigh-risk contacts because of this.The civic authorities had identified most of themourners who attended the funeral and sent them forquarantine, while the high-risk contacts of these attendeeswere being traced, he said. CORARU ARU

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Perched in the Western peninsula region of India, Maharashtra is one of the largest states of India that spans over 307,713 square kilometers. Maharashtra is the world’s second most populated state in the world. Maharashtra’s capital is Mumbai, which has a population of about 18 million, making it the highest populated city in the country. Pune is a house to world renowned educational institutions. Maharashtra is also the wealthiest state in India and is highly industrialized. The state is the single largest contributor to the national economy in India. <keyword id="8177203" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="vidhan-sabha-seats-in-Maharashtra">Vidhan Sabha seats in Maharashtra</keyword> The state of Maharashtra came into existence in 1960. In the first <keyword id="58135" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vidhan-Sabha">Vidhan Sabha</keyword> bicameral legislative assembly) of Maharashtra, there were 264 seats. Among them, 33 were reserved for the Scheduled Castes and 14 were reserved for the Scheduled Tribes. In the third Vidhan Sabha of Maharashtra, the number of seats were increased to 270 in the year 1967. Out of this number, 15 were reserved for the Scheduled Castes and 16 were reserved for the Scheduled Tribes. After the latest increase of the number of assembly constituencies in the state in the year 2008, there are 288 Vidhan Sabha seats in Maharashtra out of which 29 are ear marked for Scheduled Castes and 25 are allotted for Scheduled Tribes. 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