Manoj Muntashir shares new video amid Adipurush row, recites poem about Mahabharat’s Karna

Manoj Muntashir’s dialogues in the Om Raut film Adipurush have received a lot of criticism ever since the movie released in theatres on June 16. Soon after the release, the dialogues of Hanuman came under the scanner as many who watched the film expressed their objection towards Hanuman using such “pedestrian language”. Even though the makers later said that they will “revise” the dialogues, the criticism against Adipurush has not ceased.

On Tuesday, Manoj took to his social media handles to share a video where he can be seen reciting some lines from Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s poem Rashmirathi. The poem narrates the story of Mahabharata’s Karna and the lines chosen by Manoj for his video speak about the episode of Karna’s story where he had no one else to rely on in the battlefield, but his bow and arrow.

Manoj Muntashir, with this particular video, seems to be insisting the same thing that he shared in his note on Twitter on Sunday. In his note, the dialogue writer said, “People I considered my friends, abused me on social media, they abused my mother.” It seems like even though many have left Manoj’s side, he seems to be determined to stick to his beliefs.

पुरुष हूँ मैं, नहीं ये बात भूलो!#Karna #ManojShukla #manojmuntashir #ManojMuntashirShukla pic.twitter.com/IkMyPZXrYT

— Manoj Muntashir Shukla (@manojmuntashir) June 20, 2023

In his note, Manoj said that he wrote over 4,000 dialogues for the film but people got offended over five dialogues. He also reminded the audience that he had also written the lyrics for “Jai Shri Ram”, “Shivoham”, “Ram Siya Ram”.

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In a recent interview with Aaj Tak, Manoj Muntashir said that once people watch Adipurush, they will have “no complaints” and defended his representation of Hanuman by calling him “childlike”. He said, “When you watch the film, you will have no complaints. You will realise that Hanuman was a childlike character. He wasn’t philosophical like Rama. Yes, Hanuman was wise, he was strong, he was intelligent, but when he spoke, he spoke like a child, and that is how we’ve approached the character. Having said that, my depiction of the character shouldn’t be written in stone.”