Adipurush: Indian film dialogue sparks Bollywood ban in Nepal cities
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By Meryl Sebastian
BBC News
Officials from two cities in Nepal have said they will not allow Bollywood films to be screened until an “objectionable” line is deleted from a new Indian movie.
The makers of Adipurush say the film is inspired by the Hindu epic Ramayana.
The Ramayana depicts the victory of Hindu god Ram over the demon king Ravana after the latter kidnaps his wife, Sita.
In the film, the main characters are called Raghav, Lankesh and Janaki.
The mayors of Kathmandu and Pokhara have criticised a line that calls Janaki “India’s daughter”.
In 2011, Delhi University dropped an essay by scholar AK Ramanujan on the various iterations of the epic after protests by hard-line Hindu groups, who complained that the versions recounted there offended religious beliefs.
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