Bhansali’s Padmavati, for which he was in Jaipur, is inspired by Rani Padmini’s tale and was thereby supposed to be besmirching the name of Rajput queen. So, did the so-called protesters watch the film and not agree with its content? Were they privy to its script and dialogues? Or they had inside information that the director was bent on distorting history? No, none of the above. They had, maybe, heard the film will have Deepika Padukone’s Padmini romancing Ranveer Singh’s Alauddin Khilji in a dream sequence.
This is a piece of news that has been dismissed entirely by the film’s crew. But before the self-appointed guardians of our morality attacked Bhansali, they didn’t even wait to check the reason for it. They attacked a man over a film which is not even made, over a script they had no chance of getting their hands on.
