MUMBAI: The makers of Adipurush, the film adaptation of the epic Ramayana, who are facing immense public criticism for the poor quality visual effects but most of all for its pedestrian dialogues, have decided to revise some of the lines in the film. This means they would now be dubbing certain dialogues all over again with a new version which they feel would assuage the audience. 

The dialogue writer of the film Manoj Muntashir Shukla who has come under fire, particularly for Lord Hanuman's dialogues in the 'Lanka Dahan' sequence made this public in a long statement shared on his official Twitter account in Hindi.

Shukla's statement translated reads,  “For me, there is nothing greater than your feelings. I can give countless arguments in favour of my dialogues, but this will not lessen your pain. Me and the producer-director of the film have decided that we will revise some of the dialogues which are hurting you and they will be added to the film this week.” 

In the earlier part of the post, he also tried to sound aggrieved by the wide protests saying, "It is possible that in a 3-hour film, I have written something different from your imagination for 3 minutes, but I could not know why you were in such a hurry to write Sanatan-Drohi on my forehead."

The big-budget film Adipurush, directed by Om Raut and produced by T-Series, which was released across the country in Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil last Friday, stars Prabhas as Raghav (Ram), Kriti Sanon as Janaki (Sita) and Saif Ali Khan as Lankesh (Raavan).

Almost immediately on release, it was panned on social media over its poor VFX and colloquial dialogues, with Shukla coming under fire for Lord Hanuman’s dialogues in the ‘Lanka Dahan’ sequence, among others.

The movie which was reportedly made at a huge budget of Rs 500 crore, earned Rs 140 crore on the opening day followed by Rs 100 crore each on days two and three, but due to widespread protests it is expected that it will dip in the coming weeks.