Padmaavat: Rohit Shetty HITS BACK at Swara Bhasker for her open letter

We all know how much Sanjay Leela Bhansali and the team of ‘Padmaavat’ has suffered before the release of the film. And now that the period drama has hit the theatres, the team is breathing a sigh of relief. With praises pouring from all corners, team ‘Padmaavat’ is on cloud 9. But how can the film be devoid of any controversy? Swara Bhasker wrote an open letter/blog/review sharing her thoughts on ‘Padmaavat’ and paved way to another controversy for the film.

Swara’s open letter was all about how the film reduced her to a ‘vagina’ and how a value of a woman is much more than jumping into fire. She slammed the practices of Sati and Jauhar and shared how the film has glorified these acts.

I loved the performances by all the actors in #Padmaavat – The film is seductive in its grandeur, scale, beauty, power of its actors’s performances, music, design, vision… and therein lies the problem! Some thoughts.. sorry abt the length 🙈🙈🙈https://t.co/0hYnvlAvAD

— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) January 27, 2018

She got slammed for such a strong opinion on a film, but we quite appreciate the efforts of the actress to be so upfront. But we also agree to what filmmaker Rohit Shetty said over her letter.

At the Mirchi Music Awards, he was asked about his thoughts over this and he said,

I’d like to request everyone that after so much troubles and struggles the film ‘Padmaavat’ has released, please let it run in peace.

It is our film, so if I say something or someone else says something, we would be trying to create more trouble for our film. Film has released and let the audience watch it. The film is doing phenomenal business after all the hassle and trouble the entire production has faced especially Sanjay Leela (Bhansali), Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and TV 18, let their movie run in peace.

Now if we try and say something and create problem then what would be the point. Let the film breathe now, for God’s sake.

Lastly he said, “I haven’t read the letter of Swara to Sanjay Leela Bhansali, but I know about it. See when delay happens in the film, it doesn’t feel right. There is nothing in ‘Padmaavat’ which requires any protest but each to his own.”

Nikita Thakkar

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