Hindu groups attack movie star for "sacrilege"

publiziert: Mittwoch, 29. Nov 2000 / 11:23 Uhr

New Delhi - Hindu groups in the northern Indian city of Varanasi have threatened to launch a protest action and take legal action if a scene showing a top star reciting a hymn wearing shoes was not removed from a movie, reports said on Wednesday.

The Indian Express newspaper said the Hindu organizations have rejected the denial of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bacchan that he did not recite the Gayatri Mantra, considered one of the holiest Hindu hymns wearing shoes in the Hindi language movie Mohabbatein.

The Ved Parayan Kendram, Kashi Sanskriti Raksha Samiti and trustees of some local temples rejected the denial and said they would even perform a "prayaschit yagna" (atonement rite) next month to neutralize the impact of the actor's action.

The organizations also accused the actor who plays a school principal in the film of mispronouncing the Sanskrit-language hymn and reciting it while standing on a podium which was against rules. The school students were also shown wearing shoes in the scene, they said.

Ashok Dwivedi of the Ved Parayan Kendram described it as a conspiracy "to finish the Hindu religion". " We won't tolerate it at any cost" he warned. The Hindu activists said they had written to the federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj to ensure that the scene with the hymn was cut from the film.

The Hindu groups of Varanasi, one of the holiest pilgrimage sites in India are particularly sensitive about how their faith is depicted.

A few months ago they prevented the shooting of Canadian director Deepa Mehta's film Water in the city as it dealt with the plight of Hindu widows and hinted that they were forced into prostitution.

(la/dpa)

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