Django #login_required redirects to home page - django

Question

I have an issue with the below code. When I login below and try to submit the create.html template it redirects me to Home page (via home function in views and record is not saved in database). When i remove #login_required and directly navigate to /products/create , the record is saved down in database. I am confused why this is happening. Any assistance will be appreciated
I removed (#login_required) and directly navigated to /products/create and it works perfectly. However whenever I login and then use /products/create the record is not saved in database
Create.html
{%extends 'base.html'%}
{%block content%}
{%if error%}
{{error}}
{%endif%}
<h2> Create </h2>
{% csrf_token %}
<form action="create" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{% csrf_token %}
Title:
<br/>
<input type="text" name = "title"/>
<br/><br/>
Body:
<br/>
<input type="textbox" name = "body"/>
<br/><br/>
URL:
<br/>
<input type="text" name = "url"/>
<br/><br/>
<input type="submit" class = "btn btn-primary" value = "Add Product"/>
</form>
{%endblock%}
Main url.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path,include
from products import views
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('accounts/',include('accounts.urls')),
path('products/',include('products.urls')),
path('',views.home,name='home'),]
Sub project url.py
from django.urls import path,include
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path('create',views.create,name='create'),]
views.py
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect, get_object_or_404
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.urls import path
from .models import Product
from django.utils import timezone
def home(request):
return render(request, 'products/home.html')
#login_required
def create(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
if request.POST['title'] and request.POST['body'] and request.POST['url']:
product=Product()
product.title = request.POST['title']
product.body = request.POST['body']
product.url = request.POST['url']
product.pub_date = timezone.datetime.now()
product.save()
return render(request,'products/test.html',{'error':'all conditions checked'})
else:
return render(request,'products/test.html',{'error':'all conditions not checked'})
else:
return render(request, 'products/create.html',{'error':'post method not checked'})
For reference
models.py
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class Product(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
pub_date = models.DateTimeField()
body = models.TextField()
url = models.TextField()
image = models.ImageField(upload_to='images/')
icon = models.ImageField(upload_to='images/')
votes_total = models.IntegerField(default=1)
def __str__(self):
return self.title
def summary(self):
return self.body[:100]
def pub_date_pretty(self):
return self.pub_date.strftime('%b %e %Y')
* Login function *
def login(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
user = auth.authenticate(username=request.POST['username'],password=request.POST['password'])
if user is not None:
auth.login(request,user)
return redirect('home')
else:
return render(request,'accounts/login.html',{'error':'incorrect username or password'})
else:
return render(request,'accounts/login.html')