Padmavati row: FIR against Javed Akhtar for allegedly insulting Rajputs
Javed Akhtar has courted a controversy for saying that the Rajput kings never actually fought against the Britishers in the last 200 years.
Jaipur: Amid ongoing protests against director
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's soon-to-be-released controversial movie
Padmavati, a police complaint has now been filed against veteran lyricist
Javed Akhtar for allegedly insulting the Rajputs.
According to reports, the FIR against Akhtar - regarded as a living legend in the Hindi film industry - has been lodged at the Sindhi camp police station, Jaipur.
According to reports,
Javed Akhtar had said allegedly said that the
Rajput kings never actually fought against the Britishers in the last 200 years.
The complainant further alleged that the lyricist had insulted the bravery of Rajputs.
While defending director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s controversial historical epic Padmavati on Monday, lyricist and scriptwriter Javed Akhtar had made objectionable remarks against the Rajputs, who have been protesting the film’s release over its depiction of
Queen Padmavati.
“The Rajputs and the Rajwadas never fought against the British and now they are taking to the streets against a film and a filmmaker. All these ‘ranas’ ‘rajas’ and ‘maharajas’ of Rajasthan were serving in the courts of the British for 200 years. Where did their Rajput honour and valour go that time? They have become what they are since they had accepted to serve the British,” Akhtar had reportedly said this while talking to a news channel.
Akhtar also reportedly slammed those protesting against the film and demanding a ban on its release.
However, his remarks that Rajput rulers never fought against British evoked sharp reactions in the state.
Mahendra Singh Mewar, one of the direct descendants of Chittor ruler Rawal Ratan Singh has condemned Akhtar's remark in an open letter.
Meanwhile, Shri Rajput Karni Sena's state president Mahipal Singh Makrana has threatened Akhtar daring him to enter Rajasthan.
"Akthar has lost our respect. From now on he is banned in Rajasthan and if he dares we will thrash him on the streets, " Makrana said.
"Rajputs and Rajwadas have sacrificed their lives and he is mocking our history and saying we were serving the British," he said.
"He does not deserve 'Padharo Mhare Des' treatment any more. He speaks a lot in literature festivals and next time we are not going to allow him to even come to Jaipur and speak," Makrana threatened while talking to newsmen while burning effigy of the eminent writer-poet and lyricist.
Salman Khan and Akhtar''s views are like that of prostitutes where money matters the most. Their pictures should be boycotted by all Indians.
Makrana is also the one who had threatened to chop off Deepika Padukone's nose and ears, a few days ago.
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Padmavati row Live: Kshatriya community, youth will set cinema halls on fire, says BJP’s Suraj Pal Amu
Padmavati row Live Updates: Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Captain Amarinder Singh, chief ministers of BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Congress-ruled Punjab respectively, backed protests against the film and slammed what they called “distortion of history”.
Padmavati row Live Updates: Members of Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena shout slogans against filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali during a protest demanding for a total ban on the movie “Padmavati’ (PTI file photo)
The controversy and uproar surrounding Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s magnum opus Padmavati shows no sign of abating. The period drama, starring Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor, has been facing protests from various groups, including Shri Rajput Karni Sena, for allegedly tampering with historical facts. Yesterday, the Supreme Court rejected a petition seeking deletion of “objectionable scenes” from the film saying it was yet to be cleared by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
However, on the same day, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Captain Amarinder Singh, chief ministers of BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Congress-ruled Punjab respectively, backed protests against the film and slammed what they called “distortion of history”. However, Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of TMC-ruled West Bengal, spoke out against the protests and urged the film industry to “come together and protest in one voice” against the “calculated plan of a political party to destroy the freedom to express ourselves”.
The screening of the movie, which was earlier slated for December 1, has already been deferred by a few days.
Padmavati row LIVE updates:
5.52 pm: “I am 200% with the film and director Sanjay Leela Bhansali. I have been asked not to say anything and whatever is the official stand, you will get it from the producers. It’s a very sensitive issue,” said actor Ranveer Singh, who portrays the role of Alauddin Khilji in the film.
5.32 pm: Union Minister Birender Singh said those opposing ‘Padmavati’ should see the film first and then demand cuts if anything is found to be objectionable. “Some of the historic facts may not be in consonance with our thinking….those who are opposing, first they should see the movie. If they find something which hurts them, (they can ask producers to) remove those (parts),” PTI quoted Singh as saying.
4:00 pm: Actor Deepika Padukone , who was all set to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad, has now decided to give the event a miss. The Padmavati actress will not be attending the GES anymore. The GES which will also host Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump as the head of the American contingent at the summit. An official from Telangana government told IANS that Deepika has withdrawn her name from the event.
2:40 pm: Azam Khan also expressed his views on the whole issue. The SP leader said that films have been made about Muslims too but they have never objected because a story can’t ruin their history. “There is objection over story of a film. Famous film Mughal-e-Azam showed Anarkali as Saleem’s mehbooba, when in reality there is no such thing but no Muslim objected because it is a story & Muslims are large-hearted they know a film can’t ruin their history,” ANI quoted him as saying.
2:20 pm: According to ANI, Suraj Pal Amu, BJP’s Haryana media chief, who had announced a bounty of Rs 10 crore on the makers of the film, said that he will run a cleanliness campaign in all the cinema halls across the country. He added that each member of the Kshatriya community and every youngster of India was capable of setting each and every screen ablaze.
2:00 pm: Veteran director Sudir Mishra, who is known to be vocal whenever it comes to taking a stand for the film industry, said that a filmmaker’s right to express is as fundamental as a person’s right to protest. He added that people have a right to express their anguish with anything they might find offensive as India is a democratic nation. “As a industry we stand by each other defending our right to make films. And if any one has any problem with the film they are free to express as we live in a democracy. But you can’t take away my right to express as a filmmaker as well. It is as fundamental as expressing protest and that’s all we are saying,” PTI quoted Mishra as saying.
1:35 pm: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath has also spoken on the issue and said that if those threatening Bhansali were guilty, the director himself was guilty too of having made the film in the first place. “I feel that if those threatening (actors of the film) are guilty, Bhansali is no less guilty,” ANI quoted him as saying. He added that no one has the right to take law into own hands be it Bhansali or anyone else. “Bhansali is habitual of playing with public sentiments. The state government has said it would not allow the movie’s release till certain “controversial portions” are removed,” the UP CM was quoted by PTI as saying.
1.25 pm: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has also spoken on the issue. “CBFC has been constituted for a reason. Let them do their job,” ANI quoted him as saying.
12.30 pm: “We have made our stand clear on it, have already given it in written to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. The Supreme Court has also clarified that the CBFC should take a decision,” says Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Padmavati, reports ANI.
12.10 pm: Security heightened outside residence of Deepika Padukone in Bengaluru in the wake of controversy over her film ‘Padmavati’.
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