Actor Mukesh Khanna continues his protest towards the discharge of Adipurush and has urged ‘the 100 crore Hindus of India’ to ‘wake up’ and be a part of the protest to halt the discharge of this interpretation of Ramayana. He cursed the crew of Adipurush by saying that they need to be burnt alive at 50 levels. (Also Read: Mukesh Khanna wonders why Saif Ali Khan performed Raavan in Adipurush: ‘Isn’t there a greater actor within the trade?’)
“They should not be forgiven. Yesterday, I said on my channel that this whole team should be burnt standing at fifty degrees,” Mukesh Khanna stated in an interview to news company ANI.
On Manoj Muntashir’s rationalization
In an interview to news company ANI, Mukesh stated, “Kehte hain Manoj Muntashir bahut bada writer hai. Maine follow kabhi nahi kia hai unko. Par unki bachkani baatein sunn ke mujhe bahut bura laga hai. Mujhe laga tha ki itne critcism ke baad jab poora Hindustan khada ho gaya toh ye mooh chhupaenge. But ye bole, ‘Valmiki ji ka version tha, fir uske baad mein Tulsidas ji ka version tha, fir uske baad mein Ramanand Sagar ji ka version tha. Ye mera version hai. Arey bhai, who the hell are you? Aap kya Valmiki ke upar hain jo bachcho ko bolenge ki purani baatein bhool jao, main jo bata raha hu wohi sahi hai?” (They say Manoj Muntashir is a giant author. I’ve by no means adopted his work. But I’ve been upset by his infantile explanations. I believed he’d save face when the entire nation is criticising him. But he is defending his work by saying that after Valmiki, Tulsidas and Ramanand Sagar’s variations, Adipurush is his personal model. Is he above Valmiki that he’d ask the youngsters in the present day to overlook their previous and assume what he is exhibiting as correct?).
On depiction of Hanuman and Rama
“Inhone Hanuman ko chamda pehna diya. Rama ko inhone chamde ke sandals pehna diye. Na Rama ki moochh ho sakti hai, na Krishna ki, na Vishnu ki. Hum bade huye hain unko dekh kar.” (They’ve made Hanuman and Rama put on leather-based. Rama, Krishna, Vishnu, none of them had moustache. We’ve grown up watching them.)
On Bhushan Kumar
Mukesh added that T-Series head Bhushan Kumar, who’s co-produced Adipurush, is undoing all the great that his late father Bhushan Kumar did when he produced and popularized dozens of bhajan or Hindu devotional songs. “Aap jante hain T-Series ke karta dharta kaun the. Unhone Rama ke bhajan, sare devon ke bhajan itne popular kar diye the ki unki wohi cheez bikti thi. Khud baith ke bhajburan sunte the. Unka beta aaj ye Ramayana padhaega? Kya apne baap ki parampara ko aage badha raha hai ya uska naam kharab kar raha hai?” (You know the who based T-Series. He made the bhajans of Rama and different gods so in style that these songs turned the best promoting properties of T-Series. He used to take a seat and hearken to bhajans himself. And now, his son is narrating this type of Ramayana to everybody? Is he following in his father’s footsteps or soiling his legacy?)
Source: www.hindustantimes.com