Padmaavat

Before we get anywhere, let's address the elephant in the room (and I'm not talking about this film's runtime). For all their talk about misinterpreting and ruining cultural icons, we don't see the same people burning effigies when idols of Lord Ganesha playing cricket or kicking a football or, worst of all, having a six-pack are made and sold during Ganesh Chaturthi. We as a people realize that these are but artistic interpretations of larger-than-life mythological begins. Padmavati/Padmaavat rides on the same boat, with the only difference being, the bigger and more singular the project, the....