New Movie ‘Adipurush’ trailer released: Movie faces criticism and mockery by social media users

The makers of blockbuster movie ‘Tanhaji’ are back with its new mega-budget movie Adipurush. The 1.46-minute teaser got released yesterday October 2. The release of the trailer was followed by a debate over social media with mixed reviews from the audience. The movie is reportedly produced with massive budget of Rs 500 crore. The movie is remake of Ramayan starring Prabhas, Kriti Shanon and Saif Ali Khan

The teaser could be found loaded with pleasant visuals of natural landscapes along with loads of VFX. However a lot of unpleasant scenes that made the audience question the logic behind the budget of over 500 crores for making a movie that has all the regular monsters and skeletal demons Hollywood used to portray 10 years back. 

Popular YouTuber Deeksha Sharma is of the opinion that “Prabhas has a weird plastic expression on his face and lacks the ‘Godlike’ charm and calmness that is associated with Vishnu Avatars in Hinduism. Lord Ram is the calm, steady, benevolent warrior in the minds of the Indian audience but Prabhas lacks all that. Rather the makers of the movie seem to have invested all their money and focus on giving Prabhas the six pack look”.

Social media users pointed out that “There is also a hilariously copy-pasted scene of Saif as Ravan riding a giant, monster bat. It was a rather stupid attempt to recreate the Night King character from Game of Thrones where he rides a skeletal zombie dragon”. While some people questioned “Is this a movie or a Game?” few others find it similar with Temple Run 4.

People also criticised how Ravan is illustrated possessing an army of skeletal, rotten demons, looking like a cross between Dementors from Harry Potter and the wights, the skeletal animated zombies from Game of Thrones. Also the Saif Ali Khan bears a comical expression that doesn’t that has no similarity to “Mahagyani” King Ravana who ruled over even Devas and got blessings from Lord Shiva to gain his powers. One viewer stated that Saif rather looks like Allauddin Khilji.

Lord Hanuman and the Vanar Sena are portrayed like comical, angry monsters which is highly criticised. Sita who was strong, virtuous and brave princess of Mithila also seems to be misinterpreted. Moreover Ravana’s Kingdom that was known as “Sone ki Lanka” or Lanka of Gold is also misinterpreted with the visuals of a dark Lanka with black and blue VFX.