Om Raut’s ‘Adipurush’ appears to be caught in a never-ending controversy. In the latest, the All India Cine Workers Association wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, demanding registration of a case against the makers of the movie for “hurting religious sentiments” and its continued efforts to “make money selling discounted tickets across the multiplexes.” The letter demanded an FIR against Raut, co-writer Manoj Muntasir, and producers of the film.
The film has received major backlash from across the country for its bad VFX to unacceptable dialogues. The criticism even prompted makers to revise the dialogues of a certain scene in the movie that caused major uproar.
According to a media report, the letter read, “This letter is to draw your attention towards a Movie called Adipurush which was released on 16th June 2023 in the theatres across India, have been Hurting the Sentiments of Hindu religion and the people who belief and pray Bhagwan Ram, Maa Sita and Ram sevak Bhagwan hanuman, the Movie running in the theatres continues to depict the image of Bhagwan Ram and entire Ramayan and the producers also want to make money selling discounted tickets across the Multiplexes, which will send a wrong message about our learning and faith the Ramayan, the Makers T-Series and the producers, Writer Manoj Muntasir, and director Om Raut have made a mockery of Ramayan by twisting the dialogues , the costumes and the story line (characters which sounds unacceptable to anybody and everybody.”
The letter also stated, "We are requesting you to lodge an FIR against the director Makers of Adipurush Movie the producers Bhushan Kumar T-Series and others, the director Om Raut and the writer Manoj Muntasir Shukla.”
Produced by T-Series, Adipurush is an interpretation of Ramayana, directed by Raut, that stars Prabhas as Raghav (based on Rama), Kriti Sanon as Janaki (Sita), Saif Ali Khan as Lankesh (Ravana), Sunny Singh as Lakshman and Devdutta Nage as Bajrang. It released in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada last week on June 16. It released in theatres last week in Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil.