In 2016, Shri Rajput Karni Sena started a protest against film Padmavati, a Bollywood film,
based on Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi's epic Padmavat written in 1540 AD
about  Padmavati,
Sena claimed that the film is distorting Rajput history and hurting Rajputana sentiments.
The film allegedly depicts inaccurate facts, they had vandalized the sets of the film.
In a sting operation conducted by an Indian news channel claimed that the Karni Sena activists
may have planted the controversy in order to extort money from the filmmakers.
The Sena Mans broke the mirrors that were installed in the Chittor Fort, claiming that they
misrepresent the story of Rani Padmavati, whose face, according to Padmavat,
was shown to  Alauddin Khalji using a mirror.
Other Protests
Karni Sena Supporters had also protested in 2009 at the University of Rajasthan, in a dispute
between Rajput and the Jat students caste conflict escalated as fellow Jat students protested
against the treatment of their colleague. The two castes constituted a significant proportion
of students at the university and their caste associations the Karni Sena and the Jat Mahasabha
tended to get support in particular from those cast members who came from small towns and
villages. The caste barriers were reinforced by the existence of caste-based accommodation
and tended to become particularly evident in student politics, which reflected the similar
caste-based rivalry found in the politics of the state of Rajasthan itself.
In 2010, the Indian Police Service said that it had detained seven Shri Rajput Karni Sena
activists who were planning to disrupt an event at which Sonia Gandhi would be attending.