The Shri Rajput Karni Sena has called for a nationwide bandh on December 1 against the release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali`s film `Padmavati`. The founder of the organisation Lokendra Singh Kalvi said that not only the Rajput community or Hindu organisations but even Muslim leaders have come against the film, against which there is resentment across the country. Hehas sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s intervention. Kalvi said that the statement by actress Deepika Padukone, who plays the legendary queen in the movie, that nothing can stop the release of the film was “provocative”. No effort to tarnish the image of “Rani Padmavati” will be tolerated, he said. Kalvi claimed that film hall owners` association and distributors had refused to release the film in the state and leaders from political parties and communities were coming in support of the demand that there should be no distortion of historical facts. He said that the film maker had promised to organise a pre-screening of the film before the censor board`s approval but he released the promo and song without taking the Rajput community into confidence.