Mumbai: A visibly miffed Deepika Padukone took to Twitter a couple of days back to seek Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani’s intervention after members of a group destroyed a rangoli inspired by a Padmavati poster at a mall in Gujarat.
Through a series of tweets, Deepika expressed her anger and disappointment over the undue hate for the film which hasn’t even released yet.
The actress, who essays the role of Rani Padmini, a Rajput Queen in the Sanjay Leela Bhansali directorial, retweeted Shobha Sant (CEO of Bhansali Productions) who has clarified that the film doesn’t have a single scene with Ranveer Singh (who plays Alauddin Khilji) and Deepika in a single frame.
And they deface the image of their queen who they claim to worship https://t.co/bdkDJv0z7r
— Shobha Sant (@ShobhaIyerSant) 18 October 2017
And that too on just a rumor. Inspite of us reiterating that there is #NoSceneBetweenRaniPadmavatiAndAlauddinKhilji https://t.co/YD6eCPYd3U
— Shobha Sant (@ShobhaIyerSant) 18 October 2017
Re #Repeating for the Nth time. There is #NoSceneBetweenRaniPadmavati&AlauddinKhilji in the @FilmPadmavati.
— Shobha Sant (@ShobhaIyerSant) 15 October 2017
There is nothing inappropriate in the @FilmPadmavati. Our constant clarifications are not read. https://t.co/3WLp7neb09
— Shobha Sant (@ShobhaIyerSant) 15 October 2017
Time and again, the makers of the film have issued clarifications stating that the film doesn’t have any romantic scene between Ranveer and Deepika. Yet, the sets of the film have been vandalised.
The Rajput Karni Sena and Jai Rajputana Sangh have even warned further disruption.
A few days back, Jai Rajputana Sangh had demanded a pre-release screening to see if the makers had wrongly depicted history.
“We won’t tolerate any distortion of history and if any romantic relationship is shown between queen Padmavati and Alauddin Khilji, we will burn cinema halls screening the film,” India.com report quoted Bhanwar Singh Reta, founder, Jai Rajputana Sangh as saying.
Rajput Karni Sena on Wednesday threatened to further disrupt the release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali`s magnum opus Padmavati, two days after its members vandalised a Rangoli inspired by the movie at a mall in Surat.
"We removed a rangoli inpired by the film Padmavati at Rahul Raj Mall as a protest. The owner of the mall cooperated with us and apologized," a member of the pro-Rajput group told ANI.
The group warned it would go to any length if the film is released during their protests."If the film releases in present circumstances, while we are protesting, the authorities won`t be able to stop us. They will not be able to tolerate the outcome of this. We will go to any length," the member said.
Slated to release on December 1, Padmavati also stars Shahid Kapoor (as Maharawal Ratan Singh), Aditi Rao Hydari, Jim Sarbh and Raza Murad.
(With agency inputs)
