Actors Prabhas and Kriti Sanon-starrer Adipurush faced a lot of flak upon its release for tampering with Hindu epic Ramayana and hurting religious sentiments. Owing to that, a PIL was filed, seeking to revoke the CBFC certificate of the film for public exhibition. However, on Friday, the Supreme Court refused to entertain the plea and said that these aren’t matters for the court to hear.

Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul remarked, “Why should we interfere under Article 32? Everybody is now touchy on everything. Should we scrutinize all of that? Tolerance for films, books these days is going down.”

Dismissing the plea, the bench headed by Kaul said the apex court should not become some kind of appellant authority for such matters. “We may hold here that cinematographic depictions play with the original material, to what extent it is permissible a body is there. It is not possible for this court to interfere for each person’s sensibilities under Article 32. If anyone is aggrieved by the decision of appellate authority they can pursue remedies under law,” added the bench.

The plea sought direction “to protect and preserve all the religious manuscripts and texts in their original form at all platforms and prohibit distortion of the above-said texts/manuscripts by anyone”.