Ram Charan precocious visited and offered prayers astatine the Sri Vijaya Durga Devi temple and Ameen Peer Dargah successful Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh. (Images: Upasana/X)
At a clip erstwhile spiritual fanaticism and Islamophobia are steadily rising successful the country, histrion Ram Charan precocious upheld the existent tone of Indian secularism by visiting and offering prayers astatine 2 important spiritual sites successful Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh — the Sri Vijaya Durga Devi temple and the Ameen Peer Dargah. Though his motion was wide appreciated, immoderate took contented with it, claiming that offering prayers astatine the dargah portion observing the Sabarimala deeksha (which Charan is reportedly undertaking) was inappropriate. While galore kept their discussions to their ain societal media timelines, immoderate took it to that of Ram Charan’s wife, entrepreneur Upasana Kamineni. Nonetheless, she, without adjacent utilizing words, efficaciously silenced 1 specified professional who attempted to lecture her astir Sabarimala customs.
Taking to X (formerly Twitter) connected Tuesday, Upasana shared a photograph of her husband, dressed successful the customary achromatic attire for those observing Sabarimala deeksha, offering prayers astatine the Ameen Peer Dargah. “Faith unites, ne'er divides. As Indians, we grant each paths to the divine 🙏 our spot lies successful unity. 🇮🇳 #OneNationOneSpirit #jaihind. @AlwaysRamCharan respecting different religions portion pursuing his ain 🫡,” she wrote. While galore radical praised the couple’s inclusive outlook, 1 netizen commented, “Ma’am respecting different religions doesn’t mean you spell to their dargah successful ayyappa Mala. We tin respect their religion by not insulting their religion and respect what they bash without interfering successful our religion! 🙏.”
In response, Upasana, the vice-chairman of Apollo Charity and main exertion of B Positive magazine, replied with a nexus to a photograph assemblage from The Times of India titled, “Embracing harmony: Sabarimala’s unsocial contented of praying astatine the mosque of Vavar.” The nonfiction explores the contented of paying respects astatine the Vavar mosque, a awesome of Hindu-Muslim unity, earlier pilgrims statesman their travel to Sabarimala. The Vavar Juma Masjid is located astatine Erumeli successful Kottayam district, Kerala, 45 km from the Sabarimala temple.
“The mosque is dedicated to Vavar, the renowned Muslim companion of Lord Ayyappa. The legends surrounding Vavar are numerous. In antithetic versions of the story, helium becomes an Arab pirate, a Muslim saint, a foreigner from Syria oregon idiosyncratic who belonged to the Pandya kingdom. Whoever Vavar mightiness be, 1 happening that is uncontested is his relationship with Lord Ayyappa,” states the authoritative website of the District Tourism Promotion Council, Kottayam.
— Upasana Konidela (@upasanakonidela) November 20, 2024
#RamCharan visits Kadapa In Ayyapa Mala 🙏🙏
Dargah & Vijayadurgamma temple ❣️ pic.twitter.com/G53wSpEYbI
— Thyview (@Thyview) November 19, 2024
Today, Ram Charan visited a Dargah portion observing the Ayyappa Swami Vratha and wearing the Ayyappa Swami Mala.
This is however bulk of radical successful South India signifier religion — Deeply devoted to their ain religion portion showing respect for others. ❤ pic.twitter.com/fxoN3AQC8w
— Veena Jain (@DrJain21) November 19, 2024
Ram Charan visited Kadapa with Buchi Babu Sana, the manager of his upcoming movie tentatively titled RC16. During the visit, fulfilling an aged petition by Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman, the histrion besides participated successful a mushaira astatine the Ameen Peer Dargah. Meanwhile, his accomplishment caused a commotion successful the locality arsenic monolithic crowds gathered, starring to chaos connected the streets, prompting the constabulary to edifice to a lathi complaint to negociate the situation.
Ram Charan volition adjacent beryllium seen successful manager S Shankar’s Telugu governmental enactment masala Game Changer, which volition people Bollywood prima Kiara Advani’s debut successful Tollywood. Also starring SJ Suryah, Anjali, Samuthirakani, Srikanth and Sunil, the movie volition deed the screens connected January 10, 2025, coinciding with Sankranti.