Before Akshay Kumar’s Prithviraj, an inventory of movies that raised Karni Sena’s hackles

The Shree Rajput Karni Sena has turned its consideration in the direction of the upcoming Akshay Kumar’s “Prithviraj” and is demanding that the title be modified. The organisation says it desires the title of the Yash Raj Films historic drama to replicate the greatness of the final Hindu emperor Prithviraj Chauhan. Just naming it “Prithviraj” does “injustice with his glory”, it stated, whereas warning of protests.
Filmmaker Surjeet Singh Rathore, who’s the president of the Youth Wing of the Karni Sena, has put three circumstances for the movie, which embrace ‘screening of the film before its release’, ‘the film be shown to the Rajput society’, and the ‘title of the film to have the full name — Veer Yoddha Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan’.
Sharing clippings of stories articles on his Instagram web page, Rathore wrote in Hindi that the organisation respects Akshay Kumar. He added that producer Aditya Chopra ought to respect the final ‘Hindu Samrat’ and use his identify with due respect.
However, this isn’t the primary time that the organisation has taken umbrage over films. Here’s an inventory of some such films which have raised the hackles of the Karni Sena.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Padmaavat’
Shahid Kapoor and Deepika Padukone in Padmaavat
In 2017, Bhansali”s “Padmavati” attracted a significant controversy with the Karni Sena claiming that the director portrays a Rajput queen in a unfavourable mild. The film’s units had been vandalised and Bhansali was assaulted in the course of the taking pictures of the film. At one level, actor Deepika Padukone confronted threats to her life with a bounty being placed on her head following a hearsay that the movie depicted a love scene between Padmavati and Allauddin Khilji. The director made strenuous efforts to disclaim the hearsay. The movie lastly launched in January 2018 with the modified title of “Padmaavat”.

Tandav
Tandav launched on Amazon Prime Video on January 15. (Photo: Amazon Prime Video/Instagram)
Maharashtra Karni Sena chief Ajay Sengar objected to Amazon Prime’s internet collection Tandav. Sengar talked about that anybody who would slit the tongue of these insulting Hindu gods shall be given a reward of Rs 1 crore. At the centre of the row was a scene with Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, within the position of faculty scholar Shiva, enjoying the Hindu god Mahadev in a theatre manufacturing.
Akshay Kumar’s Laxmii
Laxmii is the remake of Tamil hit Kanchana. (Photo: Akshay Kumar/Twitter)
The makers of the movie had been served with a authorized discover from Karni Sena. In their discover, the Sena claimed that the title of the film is “derogatory and offensive” to Goddess Laxmi and was sending a “wrong message” to the society in the direction of the “ideology, customs, gods and goddesses of Hindu religion”. The Hindu Sena had even written a letter to Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar demanding applicable motion be taken in opposition to the crew concerned within the making of the movie. Therefore, the makers needed to change the title from Laxmmi Bomb to Laxmii.
Karni Sena protests in opposition to Kangana Ranaut’s Manikarnika
Kangana Ranaut starrer Manikarnika 
Karni Sena was additionally upset with Kangana Ranaut’s Manikarnika as they believed that the movie confirmed a relationship between Laxmibai and a British officer. They additionally claimed that the movie confirmed the queen dancing to a particular quantity, which is in opposition to their custom.
Jodha Akbar
Still from Ashutosh Gowarikar movie Jodha Akbar
In 2008, the organisation shot to fame, after it protested in opposition to Ashutosh Gowarikar’s movie Jodha Akbar. The protests had turned so widespread that no cinema corridor agreed to launch the movie and in the end Jodha Akbar was not launched in Rajasthan. The outfit had alleged that there was ‘blatant distortion of history’ within the movie and that Jodha was not Akbar’s spouse.

Veer
Karni Sena activists in Udaipur burnt posters of Salman Khan over his movie Veer. They claimed that just a few scenes within the movie maligned their neighborhood. They even vandalised some cinema halls which had been operating the movie.
Apart from this, in 2013, the organisation had tried to sabotage the Congress’ ‘Chintan Shivir’ and confront AICC president Sonia Gandhi over the problem of reservations. In 2014, the group disrupted filmmaker Ekta Kapoor’s session on the Jaipur Literature Festival due to her TV serial Jodha Akbar. A couple of days later, the group allegedly attacked journalists on the Jaipur workplace of Zee News to register their protest in opposition to Zee TV which was airing the serial.