SC to hear pleas of Rajasthan, MP against Padmaavat on Tuesday

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on Tuesday the pleas of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh governments, seeking recall of its January 18 orders allowing the screening of controversial......

Karni Sena refuses Bhansali's invitation to watch Padmaavat

The Shree Rajput Karni Sena, a fringe organisation protesting against Padmaavat claimed on Saturday that it had received an invitation from Bhansali productions to watch the movie. The......

CBFC to clear Padmavati with modifications, and name changed to Padmavat

The censor board has decided to give Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmavati a UA certificate without any cuts but has suggested that the director change the film's title to Padmavat besides making four......

Gujarat CM says won't screen Padmavati, movie 'hurts sentiments'

Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani said on Wednesday that his government would not allow the release of Bollywood movie Padmavati in the state as it hurts sentiments of the Rajput community.......

'Bhansali can't get away with showing anything he wants'

'These people from Mumbai just understand the language of either silver, or shoes,' Lokendra Singh Kalvi, founder patron of the Shree Rajput Karni Sena, tells Dhruv Munjal.Illustration: Uttam......

'Emperor Akbar was Jodha's father-in-law'

A former minister in the Chandrashekhar government in the early 1990s, Lokendra Singh Kalvi, 54,has a new agenda. He has now taken up the issue of the distortion of history in Ashutosh Gowarikar's......

Did Jodhabai really exist?

Even as director Ashutosh Gowarikar is all set to release his film, Jodhaa Akbar, controversies dog the leading character. It is claimed by some historians that Jodha was not Akbar's wife, as is......

Protests against Jodhaa Akbar in Rajasthan

Activists belonging to an outfit calling itself the Sri Rajput Karni Sena haveprotested against the screening of Jodhaa Akbar in Rajasthan. "We shall not allow the filmmaker to distort history,"......