Adipurush Dialogue Writer Manoj Muntashir Seeks Police Protection Amid Backlash: DEETS Inside

Manoj Muntashir Seeks Police Protection: Om Raut's magnum opus, Adipurush has drawn criticism since its release on June 16. While people have slammed the director and writer of the film, Om Raut, poet cum lyricist, Manoj Mantashir who has written the dialogues is continuously being ridiculed on social media.

The film touted as the modern-day adaptation of the Hindu epic saga, Ramayana is said to have hurt the religious sentiments by its 'objectionable' dialogues. And amid this, the dialogue writer has sought police protection.

MANOJ MUNTASHIR SEEKS SECURITY

After the received immense backlash, Manoj Muntashir on June 18, during a media interaction revealed that some dialogue in Adipurush will be changed. He was continuously ridiculed for writing the dialogues that are said to have disrespected the epic. Now, as per a report in India Today, Manoj has sought police protection citing 'danger' from the Mumbai Police.

The dialogue writer of Adipurush has expressed apprehension of danger to himself and has shared an application to the Mumbai Police, who will now take a decision of providing him with security.

WHEN MANOJ MUNTASHIR DEFENDED ADIPURUSH DIALOGUES

Earlier, during an interview with Republic World, Manoj Muntashir defended the film's dialogues and said, "It is not an error. It is a very meticulous thought process that has gone into writing the dialogues for Bajrang Bali and for all the characters. We have made it simple because we have to understand one thing if there are multiple characters in a film, all cannot speak the same language. There has to be a kind of diversion, a kind of division."

He also added that, "Humare yahan daadiyan, naniyan jab Ramayan ki kathaye sunati thi, jo isi bhaasha mein sunaati thi. Yeh dialogue jiska aapne zikar kiya, yeh iss desh ke sant, bade bade katha vachak aisi hi bolte hai jaise maine likha hai (When grandmothers narrated the tales of Ramayan they used this language. The dialogue you mentioned, priests and narrators used to say in the same way I have written). I am not the first one to write this dialogue, it's already there."