"Bhayanak Mazaak": 'Shaktimaan' Actor Mukesh Khanna Tears Into 'Adipurush' Makers
'Shaktimaan' actor Mukesh Khanna has ripped apart the makers of 'Adipurush', saying it is a "bhayanak mazak with Ramayana".
Om Raut's new Hindi movie 'Adipurush' is receiving flak from all corners. The new Hindi movie starring Prabhas, Saif Ali Khan, Sunny Singh, and Kriti Sanon has grossed Rs 300 crore worldwide, however, the makers continue to receive flak for poor VFX and questionable dialogues. The outrage has even led to the makers changing the dialogues, and the new print would be in theatres later this week. In the latest entertainment news, 'Shaktimaan' actor Mukesh Khanna has voiced his criticism towards 'Adipurush', saying it is a "bhayank mazak with Ramayana'.
“There is no bigger disrespect to Ramayana than Adipurush. Om Raut seems to have no knowledge of Ramayana and on top of that, we have the great buddhijeevi writer Manoj Muntashir Shukla, who has turned our Ramayana into Kalyug. His nonsensical dialogues and sleep-inducing screenplay has created a film that can make even sleeping pills blush. This film has no relation to any of the Ramayanas ever written," Mukesh Khanna said on his YouTube channel Bheeshm International.
“It’s clear after watching the film that Raut is influenced by Hollywood filmmaking and inspired by that, he has stuffed this Ramayana with nuisance. If you wanted to take cinematic liberties, you could have made a fictional film. But, you played with the images of gods and hence, Adipurush is a bhayanak mazaak with Ramayana," he added.
Speaking further, he said: "Meghnath is reduced to look like a cheap WWE wrestler with tattoos all over his body and made to mouth ‘chindi‘ dialogues. “Beta teri jali”, how can these words ever fit Ramayana? Was he a tapori character? Simultaneously, I don’t think that Raavan was scary. He was a pandit. But, even if we assume that one has to show him as scary, then show that and not in the way that he has been shown in this film. You will wonder who designed him like that and who had the guts to do it.”
“But this was a different film. You have to imbibe Ram and let him enter your heart to play him on-screen. Showing off their body won’t make anyone Lord Ram. If you wanted inspiration, you could have looked up Arun Govil’s performance. You have no right to change the characterisation of our epics. They made Raavan do comedy. He was not a comedy character. He looks more like a sasta smuggler here," he added.
In the movie 'Adipurush', Lord Hanuman is heard saying dialogues like "tel tere baap ka, jalegi bhi tere baap ki", and fans have been calling out the makers over such poor dialogues.
“If Hanuman ji saw his getup in this movie, he would pick a mountain and throw it on the makers of this film. Some people ask me, if the Censor Board has approved of a film, then what my issue is… I want to respond to them by saying Censor Board is not Supreme Court. If the Censor Board has forgotten our values, we will teach them. But I wonder how the Board gave approval to such films. I don’t understand how all of this cost them Rs 600 crore," he said.
