Kathmandu: Amid outrage over Om Raut’s recent-released ‘Adipurush’, Nepal on Monday banned all Hindi films in the capital city Kathmandu and Pokhara following a controversy over the film’s dialogue. An announcement in this regard was made on Sunday with authorities directing all cinema halls in the Metropolitan city of central Nepal to stop the screening of all Bollywood films starting from Monday onwards. An HT report mentioned that police personnel were deployed in 17 halls in Kathmandu to ensure that no Hindi film is screened.
Why Adipurush Got Banned In 2 Cities Of Nepal?
On Sunday, Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah stated that no Hindi film will be allowed to run in Kathmandu Metropolitan City until the dialogue in Prabhas and Kriti Sanon-starrer ‘Adipurush’ – “Janaki is a daughter of India” is removed not just in Nepal but also in India. Sita, also referred to as Janaki, is believed by many to have been born in Janakpur in southeast Nepal. Pokhara was quick to follow suit. Pokhara Metropolis Mayor Dhanaraj Acharya said ‘Adipurush’ will be barred from screening from Monday onwards over the dialogue that Janaki is India’s daughter.
Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah on Sunday said no Hindi film will be allowed to run in Kathmandu Metropolitan City until the dialogue ‘Janaki is a daughter of India’ in Adipurush is removed not just in Nepal but also in India. He further stated that screening ‘Adipurush’ without getting one of its dialogues removed will cause ‘irreparable damage’. His post sent Nepali social media into a frenzy, with many users welcoming the Mayor’s decision and others denouncing it.
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As controversy spiralled, ‘Adipurush’ dialogue writer Manoj Muntashir Shukla on Sunday took to social media and announced that the makers of the movie had decided to ‘revise some of the dialogues’ after the film was criticised heavily for its pedestrian language. Shukla, who has penned the Hindi dialogues and songs of the multilingual saga, said the amended lines will be added to the film by this week.
Produced by T-Series, Retrophiles, and UV Creations, the mythological action film stars Prabhas as Raghava (Ram), Kriti Sanon as Janaki (Sita), Saif Ali Khan as Lankesh (Ravana), Sunny Singh as Shesh (Lakshman) and Devdutta Nage as Bajrang (Hanuman). It is one of the most expensive Indian films ever made with a budget of Rs 500 crore. While the film has been performing exceptionally well at the Box Office as it collects rs 216 crore in just 3 days of its release, it has been panned severely for its poor VFX, screenplay, direction and its dialogues being ‘indecent and objectionable.
(With PTI inputs)
