Padmavati no release in Rajasthan; distributors backoff

It seems that bad time for Padmavati movie of Sanjay Leela Bhansali is not going to end soon. The problems are increasing each day.

After attacks from Karni Sena, now , distributors are refusing to release the film in cinema halls in Rajasthan. Their argument is that if the film offends the sentiments of the people, due to distortion of historical facts, they will not pick up the distribution rights.

All distributors are afraid to release the movie in cinema halls as it may invite trouble to theatres from people of specific groups who are opposing the movie.



"Let the Shri Rajput Karni Sena and filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali reach an amicable solution. We will buy the distribution rights only after that," Raj Bansal, a leading film distributor from the state, said on Monday.

Narendra Singh, a Jaipur royal, said, "There are large-scale protests against Padmavati. The main purpose behind the protests is that historical facts have been distorted in the movie. The kind of promos that are coming to the fore, the kind of publicity that has been going on; all of it conveys that the story of a Maharani who committed Jauhar with 16,000 women, that Maharani is depicted in a manner that she is doing Ghoomar in front of everyone or that Khilji is seeing such a dream. This kind of projection that is bein