Adipurush opens with a disclaimer, but it's not the standard "resemblance is purely fictional" spiel. Instead, it's a longish statement about the film's intention to be "true to the essence and spirit" of India's greatest epic, suggesting that Adipurush is, perhaps, not to be seen as a movie, but as a "work of worship".
By its own rubric, what follows is three hours of sacrilege.
The first noticeable thing about Adipurush is its bleak colour palette. What should have been a verdant and Eden-ic forest where Rama, Sita and Lakshmana spend their years in exile is a s....