Unfazed by a show cause notice
served against him, Haryana BJP leader Suraj Pal Amu today
said he would not allow anyone to watch "Padmavati", claiming
that the heroic character of 'Rani Padmavati' has been shown
in a bad light in the period drama.
"I do not want to see the movie and I will not let
anybody else watch it. If you call it 'gundagardi'
(hooliganism), it does not affect me," he told reporters here.
"Trailers of the movie are being shown on television and
cinema halls. I saw one such trailer...The kind of scenes I
watched in the trailer, I feel ashamed to share them with you.
"If the movie is run, you know Prime Minister Narendra
Modi's Swachh Bharat campaign is going on. The entire
Kshatriya samaj will damage all the cinema halls of the
country," he said.
Amu threatened that he would not let the Sanjay Leela
Bhansali-directed movie be released in the country.
"If they are adamant on releasing the movie, we will also
not let it be screened," he said.
Haryana's BJP unit had yesterday served the show cause
notice on Amu, asking him to explain his reported remarks
offering to double the Rs 5 crore bounty promised by a Meerut
youth for beheading director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and the
female lead Deepika Padukone.
"We will reward the ones beheading them with Rs 10 crore
and also take care of their family needs...We know very well
how to treat who insult the Rajput community," Amu had
reportedly said at a function in Delhi.
Amid rumours of a romantic dream sequence between Rajput
queen Padmavati and Alauddin Khilji's characters in the film,
many Rajput groups have been up in arms against the movie,
alleging that it distorts history.
Historians, however, are divided on whether Rani
Padmavati existed.
