Adipurush was released in theaters on June 16 and starred Prabhas as Raghava, also known as Lord Rama, Kriti Sanon as Janaki, also known as Sita, and Saif Ali Khan as Lankesh, also known as Ravana. Based on the Sanskrit epic Ramayana and directed by Om Raut, the movie received harsh criticism for its dreadful special effects, weak character development, and weird dialogues.
Adipurush had its OTT release on Friday, August 11, around two months after its theatrical debut.
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Adipurush’s Netflix description read, “While serving a long exile, a righteous warrior prince sets out on an epic journey across land and sea to rescue his wife from a demon king.”
There were no noteworthy announcements made by the production team. Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada are the four South Indian languages in which Prime Video is streaming the movie. Netflix is also offering the Hindi version of the movie for streaming.
The mythological drama was first produced in Telugu and Hindi, while the other three languages were added as dubbing.
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Reacting to the OTT release, one wrote, “guys lets keep one comment empty for hanuman ji.”
A second added, “Itne bure din aagai netflix ke???.”
A third wrote, “Remove this nonsense of a movie. This is disrespectful to a Divine tale.”
A fourth wrote, “I don’t want to feel my Netflix subscription worthless by watching the worthless things.”
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Adipurush, which cost Rs 700 crores to produce, is the most costly movie ever made in India. For its inaccurate portrayal of the Ramayana, purported factual misinterpretations, Hanuman dialogues, and other issues, the movie has drawn controversy. Manoj Muntashir, who wrote the dialogue for the film, received a lot of criticism for creating dialogue that was regarded inappropriate for a film based on India’s famous epic.
Adipurush is an adaptation of the Indian epic Ramayana.
Sunny Singh plays Sesh (Lakshmana), Devdatta Nage plays Bajrang (Lord Hanuman), Vatsal Sheth plays Indrajit (Meghnada), Sonal Chauhan plays Mandodari, Siddhant Karnick plays Vibhishana, Krishna Kotian plays Dashratha, and Trupti Todarmal plays Sarama, among others, in the mythical action movie Adipurush. Bhushan Kumar, Om Raut, Prasad Sutar, and Rajesh Nair are the financiers of the movie through their companies T-Series and Retrophiles.
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