Mumbai: Arun Kovil, who played the role of Rama in the 1987 serial ‘Ramayanam’, has criticized the movie ‘Aadipurush’ as being like a cartoon adapted from Hollywood.
‘Aadipurush’ is a film directed by Om Rawat based on a part of Ramayana story. It stars Prabhas as Rama, Saif Ali Khan as Ravana and Keerthy Sanon as Sita. This film, made in 3D technology, was released in theaters on June 16 in 5 languages simultaneously namely Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. The film is receiving negative reviews and fans are commenting that the graphics are bad.
In this situation, Arun Govil, who played the role of Lord Rama in Ramananda Sagar’s ‘Ramayanam’ series, released in 1987, has made strong criticisms about the movie ‘Aadipurush’.
In an interview, he said, “What is wrong with the Ramayana that we all know and love all these years? What is the need to change certain things? Maybe the film crew doesn’t have proper faith in Rama and Sita, that’s why they have made these changes. Ramayana is always about faith. It should not be tampered with in any way.
Ramayana is a heritage of Indian culture and the way it is spoken now is very painful. What is the need to deviate from the basic spirit of the Ramayana? “It is not right to show Ramayana as a cartoon adapted from Hollywood,” he said.