"Rajput Controversy"- Akshay Kumar and Manushi Chillar starrer "Prithviraj" lands in trouble

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• Dec 30, 2021 | Deleted

Digital Desk: The Gurjars in Rajasthan have threatened to stop the screening of Bollywood talkie 'Prithviraj' starring Akshay Kumar and Miss World Manushi Chillar if the movie continues using the term 'Rajput' for Prithviraj Chauhan.

The community claimed that Prithviraj was from the Gurjar community and that he was not a Rajput. However, leaders from the Rajput community have firmly rejected their claim and said that Gurjars were initially 'gauchar,' who then converted into Gujjars and then Gurjars. They originally hailed from Gujarat and hence got this name, claimed Shri Rajput Karni Sena national spokesperson Vijendra Singh Shaktawat.

 This is a place-related term and not a caste-related term, he added.

Gurjar leader Himmat Singh said, "#Prithviraj Movie is made based on Prithviraj Raso written by Chand Bardai, and the same as shown in the teaser of Prithviraj movie. 

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After studying the inscriptions available in history, researchers assumed that Chand Bardai wrote it around 400 years back after the reign of Prithviraj Chauhan. In the 16th century, a fictional epic, the Raso was written. Chand Bardai wrote the epic in Pringal language, a mixture of Bajra and Rajasthani languages.

The controversy over the movie is because the word Rajput was used at the time of Chand Bardai and not during the reign of Prithviraj Chauhan, he said adding "Prithviraj Chauhan's father Someshwar has been related with the Gujjar caste, and hence the son should himself be a Gurjar," he added.

Shaktawat said that it's true that Rajput is a title and not a caste. But then it is also a fact that Rajputs symbolize those who are connected to the land, which means sons of the soil who are ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their motherland.

He said that Someshwar was the king of Gurjarland, which was a part of today's Gujarat and Rajasthan. He hence was called Gurjadhipati or Gurjaradheer, which connected south Rajasthan and Gujarat. All claims of the Gurjar clan are hence baseless, he claimed.