Portraying Lord Shiva in a bad
light?:
According to a report on
indiatoday.intoday.in,
the
secretary of Hindu Legal Cell,
Prashant Patel, has apparently
lodged an FIR against director
Rajkumar Hirani, Aamir Khan,
producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra and
Sidharth Roy Kapur.
Reportedly, he thinks that Lord Shiva has
been portrayed in a bad light in
PK.
Further allegations include
comments on Hindu rituals, that
hurt the sentiments of believers.
The FIR has a mention of the
film's dialogue, 'Jo darta hai vo hi
mandir jaata hai.'
Raju Hirani clarifies: Director
Rajkumar Hirani came forward to
clear his stance. In an interview
to DNA, he said, "We have not
done anything for which people
can tell we have deliberately hurt
anyone's religious sentiments.
The
core idea of the film is just that
we are not born with a birthmark
proclaiming we are Hindus or
Muslims or Sikhs or Christians. It
is just that like a baby is born
without any per-conceived notions
and is made to follow a certain
lifestyle and perform certain
rituals, we decided to have Aamir
as an alien which meant he too
did not have any idea or notions
about what religion is here on
Earth.
A newborn baby is taught
to follow certain rules and act
according to one's religious
traditions. When they grow up
and have their own set of
ideologies, they think their ways
or methods are right and others
are wrong. To a Hindu, some
ritual might be done in a certain
manner or something might be
considered sacred. But for
Muslims, it might be something
else. That is what we tried to
portray that our ways are
different, not by choice, but our
faith remains the same."
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