Padmavati

The raging debate around Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmavati shows no signs of cooling down. At the most basic level, those opposing the negative criticism of the film are basing their argument on the fact that the story is a folklore, not rooted in real incidents.

However, the incident is very much a part of history books in Rajasthan and is being treated as a real incident, so much so that on Friday, Rajasthan’s education minister Vasudev Devnani stated that the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) will “weed out any inaccuracies” regarding Padmavati in the state’s history text books.