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Padmavat - A Review By Ahmed RIK Padmavat or a Sanjay Leela Bhansali's power ballad praising the valor, pride, and honor of the Rajputs. A film that had initially faced numerous crisis and controversies within India and that too by Rajputs themselves nowhere depicts Rajputs in an irksome position. Padmavat, as said in disclaimer too, is not a history lesson. So if you're thinking to get a history lesson on the real story of either the Sultan Khilji or Maharawal Rattan Singh and the conquest of Chittor than let me warn you at this stage, it not a history lesson. Rather it’s a beautiful and an epic visual adaptations of the epic poetry by Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi. Though the synopsis of the film and the story within the poetry differ but the main characters of the poem resemble. The film opens with a great depiction of what could possibly be the 1300s in Afghanistan and then centers into the dark dynasty of the Khaljis. Tha...

O Bulleya! Deepened, saddened and distressed, I am writing this to you. Come and see what have they made of a city that once belonged to you. There was a time it was known for love Now its known for lust, nowhere seen is love There was a time Bulleya, people adored it. Everyone has nothing now, but just to abhor it. Love was what you talked all about Why is that you are silent, with nothing to talk about? O! Bulleya they did it again. Before it was Zain now Zainab again. They say you knew Him a lot at that place If that's true ask Him to annihilate this place O! Bullyeah! What more is that you need to see? Haven’t we have seen enough of this plea. There stand that cohort all innocent. What can we do? We are all reticent. Once more innocence have been bullet hit. You await Bulleya for those corrupt filletted I adored you, adored thy city. Now I adore you, but abhor thy city. Come See Bulleya! What have they made of thy ...