Why caste is hardly discussed in Kannada cinema: on his acclaimed social drama ‘Hebuli Cut’ on Bheemrao P

The mainstream Kannada cinema is away from the subject of caste. For filmmaker Bheemrao P, it was important to ensure that his first venture was not found in the bud. Promoting his film, Hebuli cut, He called the film a tender story of a boy’s dream to get a fancy hairstyle. The film is more than this, but Bhimrao wanted to discuss his film before getting anything else.

“The moment you mention Ambedkarism, a section of people will remove yourself from your film. Therefore, I emphasized the fact that my film was a ‘commercially attractive social drama’,” he says Hindu.

Released in theaters on 04 July 2025 Hebuli cut The noise was made among a small crowd, which included most critics and followers of the top material. The film has seen an increase in acceptance since its recent release on the OTT platform. Sun nxt. ,I see people writing a long post on social media about my film. It is being discussed in many forums, ”the director says.

Hebuli cut, North Karnataka-Talgana, located in the village of Chandrabanda near the Balangana border, tells the story of Vinay (Mounesh Natarana), a school-going to school, which is unaffected by the harsh realities of its surroundings. The film’s struggle revolves around Vinay’s desire to get a hairstyle similar to superstar Sudeep from the 2017 action thriller. Hebuli. However, his dream is crushed by social prejudice.

Bhimrao Dr. in the 1979 action drama. He was impressed by the prince’s hairstyle Nanobba Kalla. The initial point of the film became Hebuli cut, But he needed an incident recently to attract the mainstream audience. How is this in Sudeep’s hair Hebuli Became an integral part of the script. In 2017, there was a craze among the hairstyle students. So much that a disgruntled headmaster of Bagalkot wrote a letter to a salon, requesting them to avoid styling students’ hair in that fashion.

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After this, perhaps many people did not imagine a scenario where a boy would be denied fashionable hairstyle because he is because of the family that he was related. “Even today, people are not comfortable about speaking about inequality”, bhemrao. “Many people, including people from my circles, were liked Hebuli cut. But they were not ready to accept the presence of unfair prejudice in the society, ”he says.

“My film is based on a real phenomenon. Maybe people living in metropolitan cities may not be aware of such injustice faced by people from the lower castes,” they say, recently an incident in Gujarat came as a timely recognition for their story.

It was widely stated that decades of prejudice came to an end when Kriti Chauhan became the first Dalit to walk in a barber shop in Banskantha district of Gujarat. For generations, about 300-odd Dalits traveled to other places in their village to deprive services by local barbers.

Still from ‘Hebuli Cut’. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Bhimrao is still getting his voice as a filmmaker. She is attracted to films that address social issues. For more than a decade, Pa. Filmmakers like Ranjit and Mari Selvaraj have made a movement in Tamil cinema with films that challenged caste-based discrimination. “Pa Ranjit is very aggressive how he explains his displeasure with the society. Mari Selvaraj deal with serious topics in an attractive fashion. I like Mari’s films over Ranjith,” he said.

He is also a fan of Marathi filmmaker Nagraj Manjule. “His films do not work hard to portray inequality, yet they move you. It tells his caliber. I loved him Mafa (2014). I can be related to the fight of Dalit teenager against social expectations. The final scene, in which he throws a stone on the camera, breaks the fourth wall, the director’s rebellion against the biased world. It had a huge impact on me, ”he says.

Bheemrao prefers to churn attractive stories based on important topics. “In the past, some Kannada films on caste used melodrama to run home home. Such an approach does not work with the audience. Pallata Independent filmmaker Raghu is an exception from SP. It narrated a difficult story of a person who beat the drum during the village rituals and meets him. ,

Bheemrao’s approach to mix entertainment with a message is clear in the beautiful-shot song, Hadu Hgalle, In Hebuli cut. ,The song reveals the feelings of the boy who has fallen in love with a upper caste girl. This is my way of vaching for secularism because he dreams of living happily with the girl and her family, “he says, he is currently writing another” commercial “film.