JE Entertainment Desk: All eyes are on Prabhas and Kriti Sanon-starrer 'Adipurush'. The Om Raut-directorial is all set to hit the theatres on June 16, 2023. The entire team has been promoting the film for a few days now and recently, they also held a massive pre-launch event in Telangana where thousands of Prabhas's followers marked their presence.
However, during the event, the makers asked the theatre owners to keep one seat reserved in every theatre wherever the show of 'Adipurush' is being screened for Lord Hanuman, but now there is an additional request. According to reports in ETimes, a few multiplexes are going to install an aasan, place an idol of Lord Hanuman and offer flowers daily on that seat.
Raut also explained why is a seat reserved for Lord Hanuman. Raut said that his mother once told him him that every time Ramayana is staged, Lord Hanuman comes to watch it. As he believes Lord Hanuman would attend a screening of Adipurush, he wants one seat to be set aside everywhere the movie is shown.
About 'Adipurush'
Starring Prabhas, Kriti Sanon, Devdatta Nage, Sunny Singh and Saif Ali Khan in the lead roles, 'Adipurush' is an upcoming Indian epic mythological film based on the Hindu epic Ramayana. Written and directed by Om Raut, the movie has been simultaneously shot in Hindi and Telugu languages. The film is scheduled to be theatrically released on 16 June 2023.
The magnum opus is made on a massive budget of ₹700 crore (US$88 million), making it the most expensive Indian film ever made. The makers have spent an amount of ₹350 crore (US$44 million) on visual effects, while the original budget was initially estimated to be ₹500 crore (US$63 million).