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nAfter thenstupendous success of Bajirao Mastani, Sanjay Leela Bhansali has come up withnanother interesting period film. However, this film has got embroiled in insanencontroversy ever since it hits the floor. The film is about the love story ofnRani Padmavati and Allauddin Khilji. The role of Padmavati is being portrayednby Deepika Padukone. The fringe group which attacked Mr. Bhansali claimed thatnhe has completely distorted the facts. To them, Padmavati never loved Khilji.nOn the contrary, she went for jauhar to save her honour from Khilji.
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nLove Story ofnKhilji and Padmavati
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nIt is said thatnSanjay Leela Bhansali has completely relied on the poem written by famousnIndian poet Malik Mohammed Jayasi. This poem of 1540 AD gives vivid account ofnlove affair of Khilji and Padmavati. The theory of Mirror Reflection also camenfrom this very poem. As per Jayasi, Khilji had attacked Chittore and he fellnfor Padmavati after seeing her reflection in the mirror.
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nA poem shouldnnot be taken so much seriously. But, there is complete lack of historicalnresearch in India. Marxist historians who called themselves eminent historiansnhave completely destroyed the study of Indian history. Jawahar Lal Nehru hadnalso taken a leaf out of Jayasi poem and written about the love of Padmavatinand Khilji in his famous book ‘ Discovery of India’.
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nPadmavat, thenpoem of Jayasi, says that the husband of Padmavati was Raja Ratansen. However,nthe historical account we have shows that the then king was Raja Ratan Singh.nThis is a very simple and straight fact which should have made people to thinknthat Jayasi has written completely fictitious stuff just to convey a messagenamong Hindus that Khilji was not so bad.
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nThe truth isnsomething different.
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nThe poetic worknof Jayasi has nothing to do with history. It was written 237 years after thenattack on Chittore. Till then, there was no reference that Khilji had attackednChittore for Padmini/Padmavati.
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nThere is also nondenying that Padmini along with thousands of women had opted for Jauhar.nPadmini didn’t go for Jauhar because of Khilji. It was actually the standardnpractice during those days. Muslim invaders used to be very harsh on women,nespecially Hindu young women.
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nIt must also bennoted that Khilji had lust for Hindu women. His attraction for Kamla Devi ofnGujarat and the daughter of King Ramachandra of Devagiri is well-known. But,nthere is nothing to say that Khilji had seen Padmini in the mirror.
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nSanjay LeelanBhansali is trying to portray that it was Padmini husband who requested her tonlet Khilji see her once. This is the biggest falsehood and every Hindu should peacefullynprotest against this naked distortion of facts.
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