Padmavati row: Rajput Karni Sena activists go on a violent rampage

Wednesday, 15 November 2017 07:00

The controversy around Padmavati, starring Shahid Kapoor, Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, is only heating up with every passing day.

A mall in Kota was vandalised by members of Karni Sena, just because the theatre there was playing the trailer of the film. A video posted by ANI shows a group of men, sporting saffron headgear and bandanas, throwing stones and smashing glass.

Branding themselves as protectors of culture, the men shouted slogans against the film and the filmmaker, Sanjay Leela Bhansali. According to reports, 8 people have been arrested relating to the incident.

This isn’t an isolated incident of Karni Sena members resorting to taking the law in their own hands. A few days after the release of the trailer of Padmavati, vandals destroyed a huge rangoli being made at a mall in Surat. After Deepika took to Twitter to rant against the act, five people were arrested by the police. On November 12, 15 activists of a Rajput organisation were detained in Mumbai after another protest.

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