Sunil Lahri aka Lakshman: Adipurush has turned Ramayana into a joke

Actor Sunil Lahri, who essayed the position of Lakshman in Ramanand Sagar’s TV present Ramayana, is disgusted by the remedy of the epic in Om Raut’s Adipurush, and questions how a budget dialogues and flawed portrayal make the story fashionable.

“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,” Lahri tells us.

Ever because the launch, the Prabhas, Kriti Sanon and SaidfSaif Ali Khan starrer, touted as a dramatic retelling of the mythological story, has been getting flak from all quarters over its dialogues, colloquial language and VFX. While the makers have shared that the group will revise the dialogues, the criticism refuses to die down.

Calling Adipurush “disgusting”, Lahiri provides, “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 additional factors out that the group has additionally tampered the info 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.”

Lahiri mentions that the actors are usually not at fault right here nevertheless it’s the director and the artistic group that has performed the blunder and therefore, the emotional connection can be lacking from the movie.

“Tattoo lagane se koi modernn nahi hota. They wanted to make it modern by how such cheap dialogues make it modern. And if our Ramayan was not modern and accepted by the people, how did it work so well during the lockdown,” he wonders.

Now, Lahiri has instructed to Prem Sagar to make use of the know-how to recreate a brand new chapter from the e book of their Ramayana.

“We can make the Battle of Lanka in IMAX. These are some iconic characters, they can use motion technology and use those characters to a new story. It will turn out to be a viral project,” he ends.