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Amid the raging controversy over Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s period drama Padmavati, Union Minister of State (MoS) for Social Justice Ramdas Athawale on Friday said the movie should be released after deletion of “objectionable scenes”.
Athawale told the media here: “Bhansali has made many great films and didn’t have the intention to distort the character of historical figure Padmavati.
“It was a very good decision to make a movie on the inspirational woman, but showing dancing scenes of the queen who is considered a goddess by the Rajput community is very dangerous.”
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The minister stated that the “objectionable scenes that disrespected the Rajput community” should be deleted, and the film should be released at the earliest.
“I appeal to all the state governments not to allow the film to be released without cuts,” he said.