3) Villain without a cause: Bollywood has long followed the tradition of “I hate you because the director has told me to!” Vishwamitra's role in the film is typical of how the antagonists in Bollywood films inflict excesses on the innocent protagonists without any plausible reason. In the movie, Vishwamitra is shown as everything but a sage. Throughout the movie he is shown as an angry conspirator whose only wish is to decimate Harishchandra's family.
In fact, the present movies also have evil characters without any possible explanation to be so. Besides, the film also depicted Godmen taking keen interest in Politics which is as true even today in reel and real life.
4) Innocents inviting trouble: Harishchandra's wife Taramati is led into a trap when she comes across a corpse in a remote jungle.
Instead of raising the alarm, she sits down and picks up the scattered jewellery on the dead body, makes sure that she gets caught red-handed when soldiers arrive and arrest her. In the years to come, audience have seen many films where hero is misunderstood as victims of wrongdoings.
It has been seen in Hindi films that the protagonist arrives after the incident and takes the bloodied knife in his hands, meanwhile the servant arrives and starts screaming “khoon , khoon” making the protagonist plead he is innocent.
Despite everyone knowing how good the hero is nobody believes his claims eventually making him run away to avoid legal actions. And then, the hero goes onto his own adventure to prove his innocence.
