Sunil Lahri says Adipurush has turned Ramayana into a joke

Actor Sunil Lahri, had played Lakshman in Ramanand Sagar’s TV show Ramayana. The actor is disgusted by Om Raut’s Adipurush, and questions how the cheap dialogues and wrong portrayal make the story modern.

Lahri says, “I watched the film purposely because I didn’t want to say anything without watching the film. And watching it was very disappointing. I never expected the makers with such background and work to credit, to make such a film. They have made a joke out of the epic and our sanskriti, and it is an insult.”

Calling Adipurush “disgusting”, Lahiri adds, “Had it been a foreigner making such a film, we could have thought that the person is not aware about our culture. But this is unjustifiable. They have made fun of the story as well as the characters, with the language they have used.”

He further points out that the team has also tampered the facts and “it shows Lord Ram going for the battle on Lord Hanuman instead of a chariot which is wrong.”

Talking of Saif Ali Khan’s character as Ravan, he says, “If we forget that he was playing the role of Ravan, and a negative character, then we can say he did a good job. We can’t call his character Ravan because he was very intelligent. Saif’s portrayal was wrong from the start which is the look. He was looking more like a Mughal. I don’t know what the brief was. We couldn’t differentiate between Ram and Lakshman because they looked the same, be it body or expression.”

The Prabhas, Kriti Sanon and Saif Ali Khan starrer, touted as a dramatic retelling of the mythological tale, has been bashed from all quarters over its dialogues, colloquial language and VFX. While the makers have shared that the team will revise the dialogues, the criticism refuses to die down.