Om Raut's Adipurush has received a mixed response from both critics and audiences. Despite taking an impressive opening at the box office, the film has been criticised for its dialogues and visual effects. However, co-dialogue writer Manoj Munatshir has clarified that the film is not a direct adaptation of the epic Ramayana, but only draws inspiration from it.
In an interview with AajTak, Manoj said that the film was heavily inspired by Ramayana. He said in Hindi, “The name of the film is Adipurush. Let me be clear about two things, we have not made Ramayana, we were only inspired by it. Even if you see our disclaimer, we were very clear about it. It would have been easy for us to name the film Ramayana, keeping in mind the marketing strategies. But we knew from the beginning that we are only heavily inspired by the Ramayana, but we are not making Ramayana. We just made a small chunk of the battle fought in the Ramayana.”
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Manoj had earlier defended the dialogues in Adipurush. He said in an interview with Republic, “A very meticulous thought process that has gone into writing the dialogues for Bajrangbali. We have made it simple because we have to understand one thing (that) if there are multiple characters in a film, all of them can’t speak the language. There has to be a kind of diversion, a division.”
Directed by Om Raut, Adipurush stars Prabhas as Lord Ram, Kriti Sanon as Goddess Sita, Sunny Singh as Laxman and Saif Ali Khan as Ravan. The film released in cinemas on June 16, 2023.
