Updated On: 10 November, 2023 05:57 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
In an interview with Aaj Tak, Manoj Muntashir said dialogues in Adipurush were his mistake and defending them was an error

Adipurush poster, Manoj Muntashir
Prabhas, Kriti Sanon and Saif Ali Khan`s Adipurush was subjected to negative reviews and extreme backlash for the dialogues. Directed by Om Raut, the mythological drama was slammed by the audience for the `degrading` dialogues said by key characters, primarily Bajrang (played by Devdatta Nage). Veteran lyrics and writer Manoj Muntashir stepped up in defense of his film and sparked a major controversy.
Now, 5 months after Adipurush`s release, Manoj regretted defending the film upon release and writing the dialogues. In an interview with Aaj Tak, the writer called it his mistake and said, "Yes 100 percent, there is no doubt about it. I am not such an insecure person that I would defend my writing skills by saying that I have written well. Hey, it`s a hundred percent mistake. But when a mistake was made, there was no bad intention behind that mistake. I had absolutely no intention of hurting the religion and causing trouble to Sanatan or to defame Lord Ram or to say something about Hanuman ji which is not there. I would never even think of doing that. What I mean to say is that a big mistake has been made and I have learned a lot from this accident and it was a great learning process. I will be very careful from now on. But it does not mean that we will stop talking about ourselves."