Adipurush row: Hindu saints demand formation of 'Sanatan Censor Board'

Amid the row over Prabhas Saif Ali Khan and Kriti Sanon starrer movie Adipurush Akhil Bharatiya Sant Samiti called for the dissolution of the censor board and the constitution of Sanatan Hindu Censor Board alleging that Bollywood ridicules the Santan DharmaSpeaking to ANI Karshni Nagendra Maharaj incharge Kashi Vidvat Parishad said This is a good decision by Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti to demand for the constitution of a Hindu Sanatan Sanskriti Censor Board I urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to implement such a policy Bollywood insults Hindu gods and goddesses and Sanatan Dharma In Adipurush movie Lord Hanuman and Ravana have been portrayed as Muslims What kind of portrayal of Sanatan Dharma is thisNagendra Maharaj said there is a big conspiracy by the Muslim countries to defame Hindu Sanatan Dharma using BollywoodAlso ReadAdipurush teaser out most precious film says PrabhasThese people always regress Sanatan Dharma They should be banned The Central government should take a decision in this regard otherwise the Sant samaj and all Dharmacharyas will call for a big movement The Muslim countries provide the funding with the motive to ruin the Hindu culture Several Hindu nations of ancient times were made Muslim countries This is a big conspiracy to destroy the Hindu Rastra Sanatan culture And Bollywood is part of this conspiracy and doing these kinds of works he saidNagendra Maharaj further said the censor board that passes such movies should be prohibited There should be an immediate constitution of the Sanatan Sanskriti Censor Board he demandedAnother saint of Kashi Vidvat Dharmacharya Gopesh Baba said This is a great initiative This should be done Bollywood since its inception has always been insulting Sanatan Dharma and Hindu gods and goddesses They try to portray Sanatan in a bad way And this also impacts society These kinds of movies should be boycottedSpeaking to ANI the Gujrat chapter president of Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti Nautam Prakash Swami said that a meeting was held at GNDC Convention Hall Delhi where Akhil Bharatiya Sant Samiti Akada Parishad and saints of akhadas across the country proposed the constitution of Santan Hindu Censor BoardHe said India was a Hindu nation and it will always remain so Indian culture is based on Hindu culture Muslims attacked the nation 700 years ago but Hinduism was not affected It is the land of Brahma Vishnu and Mahesh Now portraying them in the wrong manner like what has been done in Adipurush The Film Censor Board defames the saints and Sanatan dharma So there should be a Sanatan Hindi censor board for the entire country It is a country of Hindus and should be run by HinduismAlso ReadIsnt Saif Ali Khans look in Adipurush not Raavan enough Here are the many looks of the mythological characterNautam Prakash Swami further demanded the abolishment of the Waqf boardThe land controlled by the Waqf Board should now be acquired by the Government of India and the state governments he addedMeanwhile a plea seeking a stay on the release of Adipurush has been moved to a Delhi CourtThe plea alleged that Lord Rama and Hanuman in the movie have been portrayed in an unwarranted and inaccurate manner depicting them wearing leather straps It also said that Ravana has been shown in a wrong appearanceThe plea has been moved by advocate Raj Gaurav against Bhushan Kumar and Om Raut the producer and director of the film The plea has been listed for Monday for hearing before Senior Civil Judge Abhishek Kumar of Tees Hazari CourtIt has been alleged that in the trailer of the movie character of Lord Rama Hanuman and Ravana has been shown in a manner that hurt the religious sentiments of the applicant and many othersIt is also said that Ravana belongs to Sri Lanka and his traits are identifiable with one of Sri Lanka whereas the defendant in the trailer of the movie has tried to portray Ravana to be belonging to middle East Asia identifying him with one as Mughal antecedent ie one who invaded India The defendant has tried to portray Ravana who was a Brahmin as a MuslimThe petitioner has sought a permanent injunction against the trailerpromo of the movie He also sought a direction to remove the trailer from all social media including YouTube and FacebookDirector Om Raut made this film with the dream of bringing the story of Ramayana to the silver screen but ever since the first teaser of Prabhas Saif Ali Khan and Kriti Sanonstarrer Adipurush dropped there has been a unanimously negative response from various quartersPeople have largely been disappointed due to the films poor VFX and the unrealistic look of various characters including Saifs Raavan Seeing Saif donning short spiked hair long beard and kajal eyes several netizens have compared the actors look in the film with that of Alauddin Khilji rather than RaavanaAdipurush has been produced by T Series and Retrophiles It is slated to hit the theatres on January 12 2023 in IMAX and 3D Produced by Bhushan Kumar Om Prasad Sutar and Rajesh Nair the film will be released in Hindi Telugu Tamil Malayalam and KannadaThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever