Queen Padmavati- A Rajput warrior history

Rajasthan Nov 19: Bollywood upcoming movie 'Padmavati' movie directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali has run into controversies as Rajput Community has objected the movie and said that the director has distorted the history in the name of creative freedom .Currently, the director claims that the movie is on Rani Padmavati who was a Rajput warrior.

Currently, there is no historic books evidence which describe her but the Chittogadh fort of Rajputs represents that a queen has existed and Currently there is only one reference of her mentioned in Author Jayasi in his poems. The story of Rani Padmavati according to the author is as follows

Padmavati/Padmini is the daughter of Simhala (Sri Lanka) king.she was a great warrior and she has fought with many kings in the selection of her bridegroom.later she married to Rajput king Chittogadh King Raja Ratan Singh and they live in the chittogadh fort. Later Allauddin Khilji tried to invade the kingdom and he was defeated by king Raja Ratan Singh.



Later Khilji on the pretext of compromise enters the fort and captures the King and later kills him later he tries to capture The Queen Padmavati but she escapes from him and commits self-immolation along with other women in the kingdom.

currently, there are locations to indicate that the queen has Self-immolated herself and the place where she died Johar kund is located nearby chittogadh.

Many Rajputs treat her with great pride and they believe that she is a great inspiration for them as she stood up to Muslim invasion and not compromised herself.