A day after the BJP ordered senior leader Suraj Pal Amu to explain his weekend offer of Rs 10 crore to anyone who beheads Deepika Padukone for her role in “Padmavati” and its director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the politician has issued a new threat of violence.
“The youth and warrior caste of this country have the strength to set every cinema on fire,” he said, vowing that this would be akin to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-vaunted “Clean India” initiative.
“Padmavati”, based on an epic poem, tells the legend of Padmini, a 13th-century Rajput queen, who killed herself to avoid having to submit to Muslim ruler Alauddin Khilji, who was obsessed with her and killed her husband in battle.
Bhansali has repeatedly said that reports of the film insinuating a romance between them are incorrect.
