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favorite rambheem moments in no particular order which might as well be all of them 2/?

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Look at the love of my life being a badass energy

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RAM & BHEEM RRR (2022)

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His absolute bone deep NEED to have a connection to Bheem, to touch him, but Bheem's cooling blood on the soil is the only part of him Ram can touch, the blood that HE spilled

RAM RRR (2022) → HIS BLOOD, MY BLOOD

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Who needs realism when you can tactically launch a cheetah at a white colonizer's face

I think my favorite thing about RRR is that basically every single thing in it was a like. "Should we do this realistically or should we do this in a way that's SO fucking sick". And they chose the fucking sick way every damn time!!!

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BHEEM FOR RAMARAJU RRR (2022)

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He stronk and he hungy

Bheem (from RRR) being Bheem (from the Mahabharata)

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What if we were bound by the string of fate against both our wills?

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Looking the hottest while committing the most terrible atrocities

RAM RRR (2022)

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I hate him >:( Disgusting man >:(

RAM RRR (2022)

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Happy Pride to this conversation from RRR 🥰🏳️‍🌈

What. What the fuck are the implications here??

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AAAAAAARRRRRGGGHGGHHHHHGGHH LOSING MY FUCKING MIND FUUUUCCCKKK

RAM & BHEEM RRR (2022) → their love is so tender

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Our fudanshi in arms 🫡

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Lacchu, to Ram and Bheem: If you both are done with your eye-to-eye love talks and cues, can I say something?

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many such parallels

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Ram wishing he could carry Bheem's babies 😆

RAM & BHEEM RRR (2022)

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bullets don't facilitate freedom. at least not on their own.

And like you said, Bheem showed Ram the value of a man over a bullet, the value of people over rifles. Fascinating!

@spes-proxima Some good stuff for you to read

ram spent his entire life obsessed with pseudo-vengeance masked as the ambition to empower his people to revolt.

bheem shows him there is more to resistance than violence.

to solidify this new understanding he gives bheem the bullet. the bullet he wanted so badly to return to the man who took his father. who degraded his people. It's a callback to that repetitive motif of the value of a weapon vs. the value of a man. In more ways than one.

ram's dharma was never to kill scott. that was a responsibility a child took upon in the glorification of his father. a samskara. his true path was to find a way to rid his people of their oppressors. something too complex to be driven by one hero (rajamouli using two heroes in a masala film feels a little poignant.)

that kind of liberation has to come from a people. it requires him to rejoin those people as one of them, rather than their leader. ram pushes this boundary so far he ends up outside of them, an observer who feeds into the machine that oppresses them.

bheem shows him who his people are, who ram is. giving bheem that bullet is a reciprocation of the numerous gifts bheem gave him. renewed identity, a more straightforward path to his dharma, a sense of contentment realized by his understanding of the gita, and a real connection to his atman.

but it's more than a gift. it symbolizes ram's new understanding of himself and his path. it takes sacrifice to fight, but that sacrifice doesn't have to look like his father's. it can be deeper, and in a way, nobler, to let go of himself.

there are clear references to the ramayana all throughout rrr but if it's a retelling, it's a deconstructive one. ram is not the prince of ayodhya sent to kill a demon king. he's arjuna, letting go of his identity and the false narrative of control. bheem acts as his charioteer.

rrr talks about the value of a man over a hero. it's so incredibly subtle i think most fans miss it. it's also deeply layered under the obvious tropes of most masala hero movies. the juxtaposition is as sharp as a blade but blends into the narrative seamlessly.

this blazing hero is a bullet. propelled by a fire the refuses to be controlled. but the reality is, bullets don't facilitate freedom. at least not on their own. in the end, a man is the only one who can break himself of his chains.