The protests have been on for a long time – the sets of the soon-to-be-released film, Padmavati were vandalised, the director assaulted for various perceived transgressions. Now close to its date of release, the protests against the film have intensified. The film’s release has been pushed back and there have been many other fallouts as well.
There is a charge that the film ‘distorts history’, that it is ‘demeaning to women’. Some fringe elements were particularly enraged by a rumour that the film would feature a romantic dream sequence between Queen Padmavati and invader Alauddin Khilji. Some reports in the foreign press have indicated that the main problem appears to be people’s wrath on the matter of a possible Hindu-Muslim romance.
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