Sita Ramam romanticizes love, obligation, and sacrifice during wartime. But is Sita Ramam true? Although the film is not real, its values and some of the things it was inspired by from the characters were likened to real people, in this instance, Hyderabad’s Princess Noor Jehan.

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The Romance of Sita Ramam

The movie is the romance between Kashmiri soldier Lieutenant Ram (Dulquer Salmaan) and Sita Mahalakshmi (Mrunal Thakur), a lady who writes him love letters that will last forever. Their love blossoms in the clandestine moments and then war brutality and exile later on.

Who Was Princess Noor Jehan?

Hyderabad Princess Noor Jehan was yet another little-known yet intriguing historical character. She was part of the Hyderabad royalty and was well known to be intelligent, handsome, and remarkably in love with a soldier. Like in Sita Ramam, the transcontinental love story of whose account was adapted, Noor Jehan’s story was narrated within the Indian subcontinent but melodramatic and tragic.
She is reported to have fallen in love with an Indian Army officer who was rude to her royal family. The social standing and political pressures at the time kept their affair a secret. According to some historians, she defied pressures from her own family to stay with the man she loved, but others believe that she spent the rest of her remaining years alone, yet with him.

Parallel between Sita Ramam and the Life of Noor Jehan

1. A Love Story with No Limits: While Sita Ramam is the love story of an Indian soldier and a lady of royal lineage, Noor Jehan’s life too was a love story of another soldier from another tribe and was thus just as much a story full of obstacles like the movie.
2. Family and Social Constraints: Both Real Noor Jehan and fictional Noor Jehan were both largely limited by family, i.e., the woman in case she ever comes into contact with anyone except society-validated mates from within aristocracy class family.
3. Sacrifice and Love: Sacrifice is the driving force behind Sita Ramam, something Noor Jehan is alleged to have done at the expense of sacrificing her love for the sake of societal pressure.

Conclusion

Where Sita Ramam is no factual record of some derring-do, its subject suggests the actual stories of Princess Noor Jehan and a couple of others like her. The film cleverly weaves the fictional and real and thus a very sentimental one. Fictionary or not, Sita Ramam is a fiction of love without borders, as in the very forgotten but tragic story of Hyderabad’s Princess Noor Jehan.

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