“Papaji had said, ‘No one will be able to make such a Ramayana for 85 years’,” reveals Prem Sagar and rightly so.
One of the most awaited movies of the year, Adipurush finally got released yesterday and it got a grand opening as it is being estimated that the film would have earned more than Rs. 100 crores worldwide on the first day. However, the movie and the makers have also been slammed by many for poor direction, distortion of facts, characterization and tapori type dialogues.
Many are comparing Adipurush with Ramanand Sagar directed Ramayana which was aired on television in the year 1987 and all of them are of the opinion that Ramanand Sagar did a far better job despite the fact that the VFX and special effects technology was not much advanced at that time.
Recently, Ramanand Sagar’s son Prem Sagar has talked about Adipurush; he says that he hasn’t watched the movie but he has watched the teaser and the trailer of the film. During the interview when Prem Sagar was told about the tapori (slang) dialogues spoken by Bhagwan Hanuman in the movie, Prem Sagar said that Om Raut tried to create Marvels through his movie.
Prem Sagar stated that his father also took some creative liberty but he never tampered with the facts and in his opinion, showing Lankesh or Ravana as a ferocious villain is also a mistake as he was a great scholar who indulged in destruction at a huge level as he knew that he would get salvation through Bhagwan Rama only.
When Prem Sagar was asked whether he is thinking of making a web series on Ramayana, his reply was in negative as he stated, “Papaji had said, ‘No one will be able to make such a Ramayana for 85 years, Papaji was sent to tell the story of Bhagwan Rama. He told the story of Maryada Purushottam to the people and went away”.
Adipurush is getting a lot of negative criticism, what do you think about it?
