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**BY APD Writer
Rishika Chauhan**
NEW DELHI, Dec 24 (APD)- The Indian film censor board recently constituted a panel to assess the historical accuracy of a period movie, Padmavati which tells the story of a queen from the warrior clan, Rajput.
The movie has become controversial and its release has been postponed as Rajput groups have alleged that the movie portrays their queen in “poor light”. According to Hindustan Times, “Rajputs consider the queen as a symbol of the community’s tradition who put honour above everything else.”
To dispel the doubts of the protesting Rajput groups, Prasoon Joshi, chief of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), invited Vishvaraj Singh of the Mewar royal family to join the panel.
Singh had earlier shared his apprehensions about the film that stars Deepika Padukone as queen Padmini.
Sharing his objection in a letter, Vishvaraj Singh stressed, “The film has used the name of my family’s respected ancestors and events that have taken place in history. It is not just the story but the depiction of characters that is of great importance.”
“The exercise of appointing a committee and the process of certification appears to be aimed at somehow lending credibility to a film, the released portions of which are found to be seriously objectionable by the very persons whose history and culture the film claims to showcase,” he further stated.
According to some historians, however the said queen might not have existed at all and her story was a part of a fable.
The movie draws heavily from a 16th-century poem, which says that the queen committed suicide by performing a medieval practice in which female royals “walked into funeral fires to embrace death over the dishonour of being taken captive.”
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
