On a more serious note, Shyam Babu wonders why the government is silent over these unlawful protests. Now when Sanjay makes a film based on the same poem we’ve women with swords coming in front of the media cameras threatening to commit jauhar to stop the film.” We shot the episode exactly the way it was described in Jayasi poem down to the mass jauhar at the end. His sister Bela Sehgal and his brother-in-law Deepal Sehgal were also involved with the episode as editors. Reveals Benegal, “Sanjay Bhansali was an assistant director in my Padmavati episode of Bharat Ek Khoj. Interestingly Sanjay Bhansali was part of the Padmavati episode of Benegal’s Bharat Ek Khoj. But I presume this is exactly what transpires in it.” At the end Rani Padmavati commits Jauhar along with hundreds of followers. We shot the story exactly the way Jayasi described it in his poem.
The poem describes the mad infatuation of Allaluddin Khilji for Rani Padmavati. He talks of love as something that can be desired, never fulfilled. Explains Shyam Babu, “Jayasi’s beautiful 15 th century poem is based on the idea of unattainable love. Interestingly, Shyam Benegal’s vision of what transpired between Rani Padmini and Allauddin Khilji was also based on the poem Padmaavat by Malik Mohammed Jayasi.
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