Ayodhya priest says Ban Adipurush – A big shock to the team

Amongst the nonstop row around the teaser of the Bollywood movie, ‘Adipurush’ over its alleged portrayal of Lord Ram, Hanuman, and Ravana, the head priest of Ram temple in Ayodhya on Wednesday demanded an immediate ban on the film.

Adipurush teaser was launched on Sunday in Ayodhya and has been receiving heavy negative responses and trolls since then. Speaking to the media, the priest Satyendra Das, who was here on the occasion of the annual Vijay Rath Yatra, said, “How Ravana has been depicted is wrong and condemnable. Through the media, we demand an immediate ban on the film.”

He said ‘Adipurush’, a big budget adaptation of the Ramayana and directed by Om Raut of ‘Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior’ fame, doesn’t portray Lord Rama and Hanuman as referred to in the epic either and therefore goes against their dignity.

Earlier, Adipurush team faced another problem when Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra also criticized the filmmaker and voiced his objection to the portrayal of the Hindu religion in the film. He said that they have an objection to the portrayal of the film Adipurush. And It is not right to slander the sentiments by wrongly filming the focal points of the Hindu faith. He also went on to say that he is writing a letter to filmmaker Om Raut to remove the objectionable scenes, if those scenes are not removed then they will take legal action.

Adipurush is Om Raut’s follow-up project to his 2020 blockbuster movie Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior. Starring Prabhas as Ram and Kriti Sanon as Janaki.

Adipurush is produced by Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar of T-series, Raut, Prasad Sutar, and Rajesh Nair of Retrophiles. The movie is slated to be released in theatres on January 12, 2023, in IMAX and 3D.