Adipurush Dialogue Writer Manoj Muntashir Says 'Meticulous Thought Has Gone Into It' As He Defends Hanuman's Dialogues

Manoj Muntashir, the three-time National Film Award-winning dialogue writer of Adipurush, has defended the dialogues and claimed that "a very meticulous thought process" went into developing it.

Manoj Muntashir Defends Hanuman's Dialogues In Adipurush.

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New Delhi: Adipurush, the much-anticipated and talked about movie by Om Raut, opened in theatres on Friday. The Prabhas, Kriti Sanon, Saif Ali Khan, Sunny Singh, and Devdatta Nage-starring movie has drawn a lot of flak online for its awkward VFX and dialogue. In the case of Hanuman, many people thought that the conversations seemed far too casual and overly simplistic and would harm the audience's feelings.

Now, Manoj Muntashir, the three-time National Film Award-winning dialogue writer of Adipurush, has defended the dialogues and claimed that "a very meticulous thought process" went into developing the dialogues for Bajrangbali.

When asked in an interview with Republic World if it was a mistake on his part to oversimplify Hanuman's conversations in Adipurush or if it was done to create a stronger audience connection, the dialogue writer responded, "It is not an error.” He added, “A very meticulous thought process that has gone into writing the dialogues for Bajrangbali. We have made it simple because we have to understand one thing (that) if there are multiple characters in a film, all of them can’t speak the language. There has to be a kind of diversion, a division.”

On being prodded about the viral dialogue by Hanuman during the Lanka dahan scene which goes as, "Kapda tere baap ka. Tel tere baap ka. Aag bhi tere baap ki. Toh jalegi bhi tere baap ki," Manoj Muntashir said, "How do we all know the Ramayana? We have the tradition of katha vaachan (storytelling), we read also but there is a vaachan parampara (the tradition of storytelling). Ramayan is the kind of granth (book) which we have heard from our very childhood, there is Akhand Ramayan, paath and many other things. I come from a small village where our grandmothers used to tell us stories from Ramayan in this language. One more thing, the dialogue that you just mentioned, it has been used by the greatest saints, storytellers in our country in the same manner as I have written it (in Adipurush). I am not the first one to write this dialogue, it is already there.”

A video of a spiritual speaker saying the same dialogue as that of the character of Hanuman in 'Adipurush' is going viral on social media. A twitter user shared the video clip and sarcastically trolled Manoj Muntashir for stealing the dialogue from the spiritual speaker.

Check out the tweet here:

यहाँ से चोरी किए हैं मनोज मुंतासिर ने #AadiPurush के डायलॉग

मुझे ब्लॉक किया हुआ है आप टैग कर सकते हैं#manojmuntashirpic.twitter.com/m7cJRgudvm

— कलमवीर ✍️ (@iamkalamveer) June 16, 2023

'Adipurush' stars Prabhas as Raghav, Kriti Sanon as Janaki, and Saif Ali Khan as Lankesh, along with Sunny Singh as Lakshman and Devdatta Nage as Hanuman.

Twitter users have been having a field day discussing the cringeworthy dialogues in the mythological drama.