In case you are gainfully employed or an employee of the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, I will quickly lay out for you the more humorous portions of said disapproval.
1.> Quoted from site : "The film shows that Hindus attacks Muslim area shouting 'They're Muslims, get them'. Jamal's mother was killed by a Hindu after she was hit by a rod on the head. Jamal and his brother Salim ran away after seeing their mother killed. While running they reach a street in which they see a child dressed like Lord Rama. Jamal watches him carefully and sees a bow in his right hand and thinking that he will be killed by the person dressed as Lord Ram, he goes by a different route."
Complaint : This child is guilty of looking "horrible" and has "skeptical facial expressions" that are "denigrating to the religious sentiments of Hindus".
2.> The film shows Hindus killing and burning Muslims.
Complaint : This gives the message that Hindus kill Muslims now and then by attacking in mobs. As we all know, this has never happened in the entire history of Hindu-Muslim violence.
3.> In this film Jamal, a Muslim boy shows kindness to a Hindu girl.
Complaint : Apparently, someone who is vaguely described as "The News", is a confident proponent of the theory that Muslim boys are exclusively in the habit of getting paid to lure Hindu girls and not a single Muslim boy has ever existed, who has shown kindness to a Hindu girl.
4.> The blind beggar character in the movie is a Hindu.
Complaint : Why inflict blindness specifically on a Hindu? Also, why is that Muslim over there shown to have good teeth? And this other Hindu shown to have a bad taste in clothes? And that Muslim to have a pretty smile? And this Hindu to be balding? It's all a giant conspiracy.
5.> The child dressed like Lord Rama is giving blessings with his left hand.
Complaint : Gods never give blessings with their left hands. The reason behind that is Hindu Gods, like Hindu mortals, wash their hindquarters with their left hand and therefore, to give blessings with the same hand would be impolite in the Divine Rulebook of Etiquette. Implying that a Hindu God would show such impropriety as to give blessings with his left hand, especially Lord Rama, who we already know was so well-mannered as to throw his own wife to the dogs at society's behest, would be blasphemy.
By the way, the Hindu Janajagruti website is chock-full of such stuff so I recommend you go peruse it at leisure. For example, this page, where somebody with an old woman / dead poet fetish complains about the painter M F Husain drawing the Hindu Goddesses Laxmi, Saraswati and Durga naked while drawing mother Teresa, mother Husain and the poets Ghalib and Faiz fully clothed.
(Above : Obelix the Gaul and Dogmatix the canine, casting aspersions on the mental acuity of the folks at the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti)
11 comments:
When I was watching the movie, I personally witnessed several people run for the exits, loudly renouncing Hinduism the moment they saw the "skeptical facial expressions" of the child dressed up as Rama.
Most of them instantly converted to Christianity, but while they were running out of the theater they thought they saw a slightly asymmetric cross and that jolted them right back to Hinduism.
The guy whose seat and popcorn I stole could barely remember his name after his rapidfire conversions.
Yes, it must be a hard life for these people. To be a Hindu during breakfast, Buddhist at lunch and a Scientologist at dinner. Especially Buddhist at lunch because I like my Subway roast chicken breast sandwich.
By the way, I pray to skeptical face child Rama that you continue to blog even after your initial enthusiasm runs out. You are a funny writer.
You guys are two of a kind, actually.
G, please go see Slumdog, and then please do a post.
Lol!
Hay Ram... Inka kya hoga!? Allah hi jaane!
Why in the name of Jesus Christ are these people so bloody jobless!
That's the problem when stupid people get past worrying about survival, and start itching for an identity/cause to defend!
Sujatha : Yes I am planning to see the movie and review it. Sadly I usually wait for the dvd so my reviews are quite useless.
Pratik : I know. Instead of defending some mythical figures from skeptical faced actors they should probably do something about the environment or poverty or even those film stars under threat from the underworld.
I discovered that site recently too. Preferred Husain's Saraswati to the clothed version, though they had intended the opposite effect. It should be renamed persecution complex.com or something.
@gawker Please stop encouraging my husband. If you think he's so funny why don't you try living with him ?
@neo Please take the trash out before it grows legs and walks itself out.
ra : perhaps the url was already taken by the Islamic faction.
Mrs Neo : When Mr Neo writes his first screenplay for Star Plus, do you want him to dedicate it to some random blogger or his devoted wife for her support during all these years?
Also, what is the recipe for trash leg growth?
I was so laughing at the OLD WOMAN/DEAD MAN fetish..Lol..Awww, when we have so many things to think and work on, this is what indians do, watch the saas bahu serials and then fight with each other over food and left hand right hand blessings.
Thanx for the link . Read it. Wow, religious people can be so funny .
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