TIL Desk Bollywood/ Filmmaker Chandraprakash Dwivedi on Monday said the team of his upcoming historical film “Prithviraj” has been respectful in depicting the life of the legendary warrior king Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan on the big screen. Earlier this year, the Delhi High Court had refused to entertain a plea seeking to modify the name of the feature film which stars Akshay Kumar in the title role.
The counsel of the petitioner Rashtriya Pravasi Parishad had submitted that Samrat Prithviraj was a great emperor and putting the movie title only as “Prithviraj” hurts the sentiments of the public at large and it should be more respectful.
During the trailer launch of the film, Dwivedi said producer Aditya Chopra had asked him if there was any possibility of changing the title but the team stuck to the original name as it was historically correct.
“I told him that the first-ever written text that we consider to be ‘Prithviraj Raso’, even there he isn’t mentioned as ‘Samrat Prithviraj’. Even in ‘Prithviraj Vijaya’ (there was no mention of ‘Samrat’)… I believe people should not be offended if we call anyone by their name…
