Real vs Reel: Who Are Alluri Sitarama Raju & Komaram Bheem of RRR

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Komaram Bheem (essayed by Junior NTR) was a Gond leader who escaped prison and went to a tea plantation in Assam from where he worked to protect the Gond tribe.

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Bheem encouraged members of the community to fight for their rightful ownership over land, food and freedom.

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Bheem encouraged members of the community to fight for their rightful ownership over land, food and freedom. He rebelled against the Asaf Jahi dynasty for the independence of Hyderabad.

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Bheem and his army were hunted down in September 1940, and shot by the police forces.

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In 1922, Alluri Sitaram Raju led the Rampa Rebellion against the British Raj’s 1882 Madras Forest Act.

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The act restricted free movement of the tribal community within their own forests and disrupted their traditional Podu agricultural system.

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At the end of the struggle, Raju was captured by police forces, tied to a tree, and shot by a firing squad. He was given the title of manyam veerudu, or ‘the hero of the jungle’.

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