The Ramayana story that had a budget of a whopping rupees 500 crores and currently it is experiencing a huge drop post weekend. As the initial fascination of the movie subsides, the ongoing criticism and hot takes make sure that even bigger drops are to be expected from the movie that currently stands at around rupees 108 crores net.
After collecting the solid 100 crores net in the first week, Adipurush has remained the talk of the town and the collections on Monday have acted like the final nail in the coffin as it becomes evident that the film will go any further in sales without crawling to the mirage that is 150 crores now.
Even though the movie starring Kriti Sanon, Prabhas, Saif Ali Khan would be the second or third most worldwide grossing cinema of the year, compared to the budget and the promise that the story line had offered the expectations from it were much higher.
It had the tenacity to be much more than a simple blockbuster movie but the age old tale of Gods had been turned into a sour show for the sacred with its scriptwriting and VFX flaws. Yet, Adipurush has become the second film after Pathan to earn Rs. 300 crore gross worldwide in the first weekend even with such massive backlash.
It was obvious enough that no matter who directs or is casted in an epic that has been in the Hindu religion since its inception would not be able to do complete justice to it, but considering the set out budget and marketing plans of the movie that had been in making for quite a while, the audience expected better.
The director Om Raut addressed the negative reviews of the movie and acknowledges that Adipurush is just the representation of a small section of the great tale, namely Yuddha Kanda. But amid all the backlash the writer Manoj Muntashir even asked security from Mumbai Police as he received multiple death threats and messages. The dialogues that have hurt the sentiments of the majorly Hindu audience, who have grown up with the tale, will be revised and rerecorded according to the filmmakers due to the use of pedestrian language unsuitable for even the mortals.
What could have been a great leap in Indian Cinema and a great chance to portray the rich history of the country has been now compared to the Japanese anime Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama made in 1992 by twitter users, claiming how the foreign adaptation is more accurate and educational to show their children instead of the multi-crore film that hit the box office last week.
