Hurt sentiments of Hindu community: SC moved against ‘Adipurush’

A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to revoke the certificate of the film ‘Adipurush’ for public exhibition. The plea, filed by advocate Mamta Rani, contended that “Adipurush”, which has been directed by Om Raut, has made some misleading statements which can be seen from the following verbatim text of the disclaimer shown at the beginning of the feature film. The plea submitted that the depiction of physical features of Lord Rama and Lord Hanuman and their communication with other characters in the movie is a complete distortion of not only the characters but also the very fundamental values for which they are worshipped. Stressing on a derogatory dialogue made in the film, the plea said Lord Hanuman, who is named Bajrangi, made derogatory dialogue in response to his rival Indrajeet, and “such statements are never used in a civilized society but used only by gully boys in India”.