Pooja Hegde received a lot of appreciation from audiences with her stunning first look from Mohenjo Daro Movie.

The poster showed Pooja Hegde sporting a blue outfit with feathers on her head. Though the poster received huge appreciation from Bollywood lovers, Ruchika Sharma, an M.Phil student at JNU with a specialisation in Medieval Indian history, lashed out at the makers of the movie saying that they portrayed a Harappan woman incorrectly.

Ruchika Sharma, an M.Phil student at JNU with a specialisation in Medieval Indian history, lashed out at the makers of the movie saying that they portrayed a Harappan woman incorrectly. She wrote on her social networking handle, “Boss, what sick orientalism is this? Who told them that Harappans had these feathers in their hair? I’m really done with Bollywood depicting tribal, clannish societies in such stereotypical terms, feathers in their hair, and paint on their faces.

I mean, there are literally hundreds of terracotta figurines depicting Harappan women. Take a cue? Also, in all probability, the Harappans were dark complexioned. Yeh, kya fair and lovely bias hai?Everyone knows the-the (migrating) Aryans had a fair complexion.Not the Harappans. But fair is all that works for BTown.Thoroughly disgusted.”

The movie features Hrithik and Pooja in the lead roles, while Kabir Bedi and Arunoday Singh are the supporting cast. The film is slated to release on Aug. 12 along with Akshay Kumar’s “Rustom.” Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowarikar had maintained that he would try his best to be accurate.