Old painting of "Thagg gang" operating. The men are distracting the attention of a rich traveller by showing him something in the sky. while another gang member is approaching him to strangle him .
Watch! Thugs of Hindustan!
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Old painting of "Thagg gang" operating. The men are distracting the attention of a rich traveller by showing him something in the sky. while another gang member is approaching him to strangle him .
Never read or heard about thuggies in Pakistan. But now that you're insisting on it with evidence too, we'd take your word for it. In retrospect, it does make sense.
Same goes here for thugs and their thaggi....sort of conman.
However there are another thugs, violent and criminal, assassins in India, movie is about those thugs.
Those pictures are of thugees of Indian origin. From their dress, they appear to be from North / Central India and not from the areas now in Pakistan.
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The movie has nothing to do with the thugees of Yore. All the film makers have done is cash in on the name. Thugees were never pirates nor did they ever venture on to the seas or command a ship. They certainly weren't rebels or some sort of proto freedom fighters which the movie makes them out to be. It's more of fantasy fiction with just a pinch of facts.
For a slightly more genuine & nuanced version, see the Merchant Ivory production of The Deceivers starring the then unknown Pierce Brosnan.
Not necessarily. Sindh and KP region was under influence of many empires through out 1700-1850.
Agreed.
Just wanted to highlight two types of thugs in India. Conman and other is assassins.
To hell with movie. Disappointed in cast to even agree to do a movie so unreal and copied.
If you look at their attire and headgear closely, you'd know the difference. People from Sindh or KPK or even Pakistani Punjab didn't dress like that
The thugee cults were completely extirpated by the British before the Sepoy Mutiny. I really don't know what those photographers or whoever curated it were thinking.
Thugs were never culled fully. They were rampant in british raj and my grand father had lot of stories to tell about them.
Isolated instances apart, organised thuggery was eliminated by the 1840's.We're talking about British law enforcement here not desi ones.
Here are a few screenshots of Pashtun tribesnen in the 19 th & early 20 th century -
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As per our region's old stories..Thugs used to be closely guarded cults with secret techniques of their own... A person wanting enter a Thug clan had to pass many loyalty tests before he could be trusted...
Once trusted , they were taught the techniques
Once trusted , they were taught the techniques
What is the meaning of Tharki? I think it means someone like a women's 'mouth-looker'.
In case you haven't noticed, his mental age is less than half his biological age. Put another way, Were you a 10 year, you'd love the movie too.