{"id":2738,"date":"2017-12-31T17:29:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T17:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/12\/31\/padmavati-the-controversial-bollywood-film-that-inspired-death-threats-has-to-change-its-name\/"},"modified":"2017-12-31T17:29:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T17:29:57","slug":"padmavati-the-controversial-bollywood-film-that-inspired-death-threats-has-to-change-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/12\/31\/padmavati-the-controversial-bollywood-film-that-inspired-death-threats-has-to-change-its-name\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Padmavati,\u2019 the Controversial Bollywood Film That Inspired Death Threats, Has to Change Its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost no one has actually seen &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/padmavati\/\" id=\"auto-tag_padmavati\">Padmavati<\/a>,&#8221; but that hasn&#8217;t stopped the historical drama from becoming one of the most controversial movies in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/bollywood\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bollywood\">Bollywood<\/a> history. After much uncertainty about whether Sanjay Leela Bansal&#8217;s film will even be released,\u00a0India&#8217;s Central Board of Film Certification <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EconomicTimes\/status\/947020555831492608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">now says<\/a> it will certify &#8220;Padmavati&#8221; if the title is changed, 26 cuts are made, a disclaimer is placed at the beginning, and the song &#8220;Ghoomar&#8221; is revised.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/11\/padmavati-deepika-padukone-death-threats-bollywood-1201900864\/\" title=\"\u2018Padmavati\u2019: Bollywood Epic Indefinitely Delayed Following Death Threats, Calls to Behead an Actress, and Threats of Arson\">\u2018Padmavati\u2019: Bollywood Epic Indefinitely Delayed Following Death Threats, Calls to Behead an Actress, and Threats of Arson<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>The controversy arises from a dream sequence that reportedly hints at a romance between a Hindu queen and a Muslim sultan, which has led extremist groups to call for the beheading of lead actress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/deepika-padukone\/\" id=\"auto-tag_deepika-padukone\">Deepika Padukone<\/a> \u2014 a death threat that an Indian politician offered a $1.5 million bounty for anyone to carry out. Last month, the group Karni Sena threatened to set fire to any British cinema that screened the film. For all of this, Bansal claims that the scene in question doesn&#8217;t even exist.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/10\/shakespeare-wallah-restoration-merchant-ivory-poster-1201893023\/\" title=\"\u2018Shakespeare Wallah\u2019 Restoration: Merchant Ivory Classic Gets Bollywood-Infused New Poster\">\u2018Shakespeare Wallah\u2019 Restoration: Merchant Ivory Classic Gets Bollywood-Infused New Poster<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>The new title won&#8217;t be much different: &#8220;Padmavat.&#8221; Padukone responded to the threats against her life with defiant bravery:\u00a0\u201cI feel angry, I feel let down and I also find it amusing,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/bollywood\/deepika-padukone-on-padmavati-row-i-feel-angry-i-feel-let-down-and-i-also-think-it-s-funny\/story-Xr1nSubWex1KV0QROfxPsO.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">she said last month<\/a>. \u201cI will never feel scared. Fear is not an emotion I have ever identified with.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost no one has actually seen &#8220;Padmavati,&#8221; but that hasn&#8217;t stopped the historical drama from becoming one of the most controversial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Ia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}