Letters: Shackling creativity

With reference to “The real tragedy of Padmavati” (November 21), any publicity, good or bad, works for the film as controversy around it helps to sell more tickets at the box office. Controversy around a Hindi film is not a new thing, if we have to name few recent ones such as Udta Punjab and Lipstick Under My Burkha, which created a lot of noise before their release and ultimately helped garner more crowds to the cinema halls. But Padmavati has been dogged by controversy since the beginning as its sets were vandalised and the director became the target of