Now christian groups have claimed their Minority Sentiments were hurt by Mani Ratnam Film ‘Kadal‘
Similar Story line in Bharati Raja’s ‘Alaikal Oyvadhillai, parents of the present led pair, were paired about 30 year ago, (Karthik and Radha) did not evoke any protest.
maniratnam movie kadal movie stills – karthik son gautham karthik …
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After the ‘Vishwaroopam‘ row, now Christian groups have filed a complaint against Mani Ratnam’s ‘Kadal’, claiming that it is anti-Christian.
The Indian Christian Democratic Party on Monday filed a complaint with police commissioner S George against the film. They alleged the film had objectionable scenes referring to Christianity and sought their deletion. They warned of intensified protests if police did not initiate action.
Christudas, a representative of the organisation, told reporters that the filmmaker had hurt the sentiments of the people belonging to the Christian community. “We have demanded that the director remove scenes which hurt sentiments of the Christian community. They should take action against the director if the scenes are not immediately removed,” he said.
Such scenes will give wrong ideas about the religion, he added. ‘Kadal’, was released on February 1. Actors Arjun and Aravind Samy are in the lead roles besides Gautham and Thulasi, children of yesteryear stars Karthik and Radha.
Another Christian group lodged a complaint with the chief secretary demanding to ban the movie ‘Adhibhagavan’ as it hurts Hindu sentiments.
Kamal Haasan‘s ‘Vishwaroopam’ had faced hurdles after Muslim groups objected to it claiming the film offended their sentiments. The state government had banned it, following which Kamal moved the Madras high court.
There were no executions posted Live on YouTube of the terrorists shooting people or slitting their throats.
There was No 9/11.
No attack on Malala the Pakistani Girl by the Taliban.
No attack on US Embassies or an attack on Marriott Hotel Paris.
Osama Ben Laden is a Scholar .
He was murdered by The Satan , The US.
Kamal Hassan has agreed to cut the scenes which ‘offended the Muslims” from his Film Viswaroopam>
There is a report that some intolerant Hindu Out fits filed a case against Viswaroopam for offending Hindus , especially the Brahmin Community.
Mr.Kamal Hassan, please, please do not ever remove the offending scenes to assuage the feelings of the Hindus nor ‘restore’ Hinduism as you have done for your Islamic brothers’.
Spare us and Hinduism the ignominy of being restored by YOU.
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If at all, as usual Kamal Hasasn digs at Hindus(especially Brahmins), Hindu Culture may be found as when asked by the psychiatrist whether she will have illicit affair, the woamn replies,
“what,Me? illicit affair, Not now’
what about future”
You mean Sex, So what, it may not rain In US”
(an allusion to Tirukkural on Chastity(I f a Chaste woman,though not worshiping God ,worships her Husband,Heaven’s will open up and rain if she were to order so’
“An unpalatable aspect of the film – totally ignored by the secular media – is the debasement of Brahmin women and their cultural practices. Kamal Haasan, like many actors and politicians in the State, has for years thrived on anti-Brahmin diatribes. Thus, Vishwaroopam has a scene where the hero tells the heroine, a Brahmin and a vegetarian, to eat a chicken and tell him how she finds it.
He addresses her as “paapathi”, which has upset this community. While this is the Tamil word for Brahmin women just as parpaan denotes Brahmin men, under the Dravidian movement the word has long degenerated in an abusive term for Brahmin women. In fact, a decade ago, a fringe party painted words to the effect that “Brahmin women should be made common property” on walls around Chennai.
“After nearly 10 days of high drama, marked by protests, mediation and negotiations, actor-director Kamal Haasan’s trilingual film “Vishwaroopam” is finally set for release in theatres across Tamil Nadu. The actor agreed to seven demands of Muslim leaders, mostly muting of the audio of portions objected to by them, thus bringing the curtains down on an episode in the history of the Tamil film industry, marred by allegations of infringement of freedom of expression and hurting of communal sentiments.
“I would like to thank the chief minister and the home secretary for facilitating the talks,” said Kamal Haasan, who arrived from Mumbai this morning after his film’s Friday release in theatres in the north. “We discussed many scenes with our Muslim brothers and finally both parties agreed to delete some sound clips from the film,” said Kamal, adding, “We will withdraw our writ petition (in the Madras high court) and hope that the court will lift the ban soon. The release date of the movie will be announced very shortly.” He said the altered film would be sent to the Censor Board of Film Certification for approval.
With state home secretary R Rajagopal playing mediator, the actor and 15 representatives of the Tamil Nadu Federation of Muslim Organizations sat around the negotiating table at the state secretariat and talked for nearly four hours before thrashing out a compromise. The talks began at 3pm and went on until 7pm, when the group emerged to announce a happy ending to the controversy. Reacting strongly to Kamal agreeing to the demands of Muslim leaders, filmmaker K Hariharan said, “It is absurd according to me. Kamal did this under pressure. He can’t do anything about it.”
But not the way one hurts by ridiculing A Region or a Community, specifically Muslims.
I, as a Hindu, am hurt that it was Nathuram Godse, a Hindu, Killed Gandhiji.
I am ashamed and humiliated as a Hindu beyond words, when a few charlatans,criminals like Nithyananda, Premananda and many more Anandas and self styled Gurus sully my great Religion.
Similarly , imagining myself a Muslim, I was hurt when a Fanatic jihadi prevents his wife from being treated by a Doctor, or when he is in turmoil when he forbids son to learn English or becoming a Doctor.
Or when he shows his inner conflict between a committed path, which he feels is not correct but unable to shake off !
“I do this for Him! Why is h punishing me!
Any human being will be torn asunder by this crisis of identity when you know your Religion teaches Brotherhood and peace but by zealots has been turned into a fanatic Cult.
You can’t revolt,You can’t get out of it, such is your faith.
But, as a Human being you know you are wrong and are powerless to prevent it.
This is exactly what I felt as I watched the Film Viswaroopam.
The rigorous training, the discipline, sublime indifference to Human values- to what depths a zealot can a Great religion and in the process create a crisis of faith for Millions!
But insult to Islam or Muslims NO.
If at all, as usual Kamal Hasasn digs at Hindus(especially Brahmins), Hindu Culture may be found as when asked by the psychiatrist whether she will have illicit affair, the woamn replies,
“what,Me? illicit affair, Not now’
what about future”
You mean Sex, So what, it may not rain In US”
(an allusion to Tirukkural on Chastity(I f a Chaste woman,though not worshiping God ,worships her Husband,Heaven’s will open up and rain if she were to order so’
But enormous research has gone into details including Afghan scenes,Jihadis training,their methods of killing.
Acting wise there is no scope for an actor of Kamal’s caliber sans the scene where he essays the Natya Bhavas in a dance sequence.
Even here age tells.
Other characters are set properties.
Editing ,Photography, Stunt sequences are top class in that order.
The weakness is screen play and there seems to be no definite idea as what the film is about, Is it a Crime thriller or a tussle or crisis of faith or plain human story, there is a bit of all, but none too clear.
A Shankar would have made it an entertainer or a Manirathnam would have it a Human Drama with a patriotic touch.
The Film is as clear as Kamal Hassan’s Public speeches in Tamil!
If, as I was telling my son while driving down, after Kamal hangs up his boots, one were asked to list Kamal Hassan’s Films, this film not find a place in the list.
If you are a loyal Kamal fan, don’t expect Kamal Hassan in this film, see it any way for his industriousness and his supreme confidence in the medium and his Art.
The release of the Tri-lingua(Tamil,Telugu and Hindi)l Film produced by Mr.Kamal Hassan was delayed t in Tamil Nadu by The State Government invoking Section 144 for the Cr.Pc.
This is how the events unfolded as described Ms.J.Jayalalithaa in a Press Conference on 31 January 2013
The Actor filed a case against the State Government in Chennai in the High Court and the ‘Ban’ was lifted .
However this order was revised, upholding the State Government’s Order on appeal.
In the mean while there were reports of Violence reported in Tamil Nadu on 31 January for a period till the ban was over turned by The Bench of The High Court.
There were also incidents of Violence, there smashing , throwing of petrol bombs by the Islamic Groups in Tamil Nadu, protesting against the objectionable content in The Film.
This died down once the order to keep in abeyance the ‘Ban’
There were also reports of violence in pockets of Kerala,Andhra and Karnataka after Film was screened.
Theater Attacked,Tamil Nadu Viswaroopam
However those who have seen the film assert that there is ground for banning the Film as there are no scenes in the Film that hurts the Minorities.
Kamal Hassan went to the Media on 30th, and declared that ‘thee was a Political Conspiracy at work”,Tamil Nadu Does Not want me .”I will settle down from Kerala to Kashmir where artist and Freedom Of Speech is respected” ‘Will settle aboard like M.F Husain”.
Meanwhile Karunanidhi jumped into the fray that the film was banned because Kamal Hassan did not sell the Film to Jaya TV controlled By Jayalalitaa, because Kamal ,in a Public Speech preferred that India/Tamil Nadu had a Dhoti clad Chief Minister/Prime Minister.
Jayalalithaa recounted the case .
While AGS Cinemas suffered the maximum damage, a few other cinema halls in north Chennai too, witnessed violence and vandalism on Wednesday — Photo: K. Pichumani
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1.24 Muslim Organisations had submitted a memorandum to The Chief Secretary,Tamil Nadu that the Film Viswaroopam contained scenes that hurt the Muslims and they wanted the Government to intervene.
2.The note was forwarded by The Chief Secretary to the Home Secretary who sent a letter to Kama Hassan to arrange for a show for the authorities and effect cuts of the scenes which offended the Muslims.
Mr. Kamal Hassan did not agree to the cuts nor was he prepared to meet with the leaders of the Muslim out fits.
3.The Film was scheduled to be released on the 25th of January 2013.
4.On 20 the when the officials went to Kamal Hassan’s residence to see the film ,as asked by Kamal Hassan , they were told that the Film release was being delayed and that he could not show them the Film.
5.In the meanwhile the Muslim announced a series of agitations of the film were to be released.
6. Then, Mr. Kamal Hassan requested for meeting with the CM .
7.As Mr. Kamal has already filed a case in the Court and as the matter was sub judice , CM did not meet him.
8.Immediately Kamal Hassan went to the media.
9.Later he agreed to effect changes as demanded by the Muslim outfits in a meet with the leaders of the Muslim outfits.
10.The Government had to resort to section 144 , as it apprehended a Law and order problem,one of organisations had more than7 Lakh members.
11.Had the Government wanted to ban the Film, it could have done so by invoking section 7 of Tamil Nadu Cinematograph Act,1955, as was done in the Film Dam 999. and he Court upheld the decision.
12.Notice of section 144 in force was for 15 Days and Mr.Kamal Hassan was asked to meet with the leaders and come to an amicable solution..
None of these were complied with by.Mr.Kamal Hassan.
I think she is 100 % correct and it does not be hove of Kamal Hasan to twist facst and act an inured martyr.
” Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa said on Thursday that Kamal Haasan’s movie Vishwaroopam was banned in the state due to fears of violent protests and not because she had a grudge against the actor.
Justifying the ban citing shortage of police to provide security at theatres, she said it was a purely law and order problem. “I do not have the police force to protect the 500-odd theatres in the state,” Jayalalithaa said.
“I have no personal grudge, no personal interest in banning the movie,” she told the media, while adding that her government decided to ban it for 15 days so that tempers could cool down and “both sides could have a discussion and come to an agreement”.
Pointing out that the movie had also been banned in neighbouring states as well as Qatar, the UAE, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore, the chief minister asked, “Was I responsible for all that?
The Tamil Nadu chief minister said trouble over the movie’s release could have been avoided. “Had the film maker screened the movie for the Muslim leaders in the beginning itself, all this would not have happened,” she said.
“Haasan called the Muslim leaders for a viewing only after he was set for release. And finally, he did call some Muslim leaders for a screening at his house. But after seeing the film, the Muslim organisations met the chief secretary and announced a series of agitations across the state,” she added.
Madras High Court sets aside single judge’s order lifting the ban on Kamal Haasan’s movie Vishwaroopam. The final verdict will be made on February 6, till then there will be no release in Tamil Nadu.
At the same time Kamal Haasan had a meeting with a few Muslim leaders at his house and agreed to cut few scenes and Quran verses from the film
Meanwhile petrol bombs were hurled this afternoon at two cinemas in Ramanathapuram in south Tamil Nadu which were scheduled to screenVishwaroopam.
Nobody was hurt, though glass windows were shattered at the theatres.
In Chennai city AGS multiplex in Vilivakkam where hoardings of Vishwaroopam were kept, the theatre was attacked though it had no intention of playing the film.
An effigy of Kamal Haasan was burned by some organisations in front of SSR Pankajam in Saligramam, where Vishwaroopam was about to start.
This is nothing but Minority Terrorism aided by greed for Votes. The Government should not have acted this way, that too very cleverly by bringing in Law and order ‘issues instead of bringing in ‘hurting religious sentiments’. When a Government quotes Law and Order issues in the arguments, and that the Collectors have taken precautionary measures to enforce section 144 , there is little that a Court can do. Very clever indeed. Karunanidhi ,as usual was undecided as to what stand he should take-initially he called for a dialogue between Kamal Hassan and the Muslim Outfits without commenting on Freedom of Expression. Now he has come out saying that he suspects that the film was banned because Kamal Hassan refused to sell the Film to Jaya TV , run by Jayalalithaa at a very lower price and that he had sold it to SUN TV;and that the ban was mooted as a revenge for this and for a recent speece of Kamal Hassan that attacked the Jay Government ! Jayalalitha probably thought banning the film would bring in Muslims to her side and given Karunanidhi’s penchant for Muslim support would keep quiet as he could not openly support them without alienating the people who care for Freedom of Speech. The wily Fox is taking another tack. This sort of politicking is the bane of Tamil Nadu. Every issue is either Karunanidhi-centric or Jaya-centric.As to Kamal Hassan agreeing to remove the portions these Muslim out fit wanted to be removed he seems to justify the Government!After it is all Money?
Why don’t you accept it, and not put an a cry show talking about ‘being an ‘Artiste’ and blah..blah.
Would you recall that you showed a scene in your Dasavatharam , the Idol of Vishnu being chained, dragged along the ground and thrown out into the sea by A Vaishvaite, though it hurt both the Saivite and Vaisnavites alike?
That was History?
But Muslim terrorists slitting the throats with a cry of ‘Allah O Akbar’ in Live Videos is a fiction and Muslims will object to it and you will remove them!
Viva La Your Artistry and what a Hypocrite!
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Viswaroopam
My Muslim family has reached out to me. They came and told me which portions they want removed, they told me the scenes they wanted cut and the words of Quran they wanted removed. They told me which are the scenes that would offend and could be removed,” said the actor, who was flanked by Congress leader J M Haroon, lyricist Vairamuthu, and several film personalities.
“We are thankful that he has agreed to remove the Quran words from the film. He immediately came forward to delete the portions,” said Haroon.
The actor added that the issue has been settled amicably. “There are no differences between me and my Muslim brothers. I am hearing some alarming news both from my fans and Muslim friends so far. Now it is up to the law enforcement and the justice department to ensure nothing happens to my Muslim brethren and others,” he said, adding that the film is in praise of Muslims.
An emotional Kamal Haasan said that he is thinking of leaving Tamil Nadu for some other secular state in India as the problems over his movie Vishwaroopam‘s release continued.
“I will look at all the states from Kashmir to Kerala excluding Tamil Nadu. If I don’t find one which is secular, I will leave for another country. M F Hussain had to leave, now Haasan will have to,” said the actor, whose movie’s release was stopped by TN state government authorities last week after a few Muslim groups protested.
I recall the instance when MGR was in power Lord Rama‘s Photos were beaten with chappals and garlanded with it;instead of taking action against the DK Group, Thuglak Cho(Or is it Ananada Vikatan?) was chargesheeted for a write up condemning the incident.
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