''Teesri Azadi'' is a 2006 Indian

Hindi Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

-language film on caste system by

Jabbar Patel Dr. Jabbar Patel (born 23 June 1942, Pandharpur) is a former paediatrician and a Marathi-language theatre and film director of India. His production of the play Vijay Tendulkar's play Ghashiram Kotwal, in 1973 is considered a classic in Moder ...

. Film is based on "twisted version" of

Ramayana The ''Rāmāyana'' (; sa, रामायणम्, ) is a Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epic composed over a period of nearly a millennium, with scholars' estimates for the earliest stage of the text ranging from the 8th ...

and

Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the s ...

. This film was distributed on CDs in different parts of India by Akhil Bharatiya Baba Sahab Dr Ambedkar Samaj Sudhar Samiti, Bhimrao Ambedkar Samaj Sudhar Samiti and Ambedkar Boudhik Sanghathan. In July 2006, shooting Teesri Azadi was completed in Maharashtra and released online on YouTube. The distributors of the movie claimed that they have support of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) but BSP rejected these claims and a CBI investigation was ordered by Chief Minister

Mayawati Kumari Mayawati (born 15 January 1956) is an Indian politician. She has served four separate terms as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. She is the national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which focuses on a platform of social cha ...

into the making of the movie over allegations of creating communal disharmony. The investigation initially resulted in arrested of three people involved in the making of the movie.

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2000s Hindi-language films Films about the caste system in India Films directed by Jabbar Patel {{2000s-Hindi-film-stub