There has been such hue and cry over PK, the movie.
While the makers of the movie claim that PK refers to the state of being drunk (पीके - as in Hindi) detractors claim it refers to Pakistan. Few say just like .in refers to Indian websites .pk refers to Pakistani websites. Also, the international short code for Pakistan is PK. So what is the issue? Issue comes from the fact that the movie shows polytheism and "GodMen" in bad light and now when the movie name has indication towards an Islamic Nation and the lead actor himself is a Muslim; this definitely raised eyebrows of so called custodians of Hinduism.
Intolerance and ignorance is the key problem here.
Hindus claim that their religion unlike others' is not "founded" by some one - a sage or a prophet or a messenger. It is a form of life. Ideally it should be called "Sanatana Dharma" - Dharma that exists always. If this be the case why should follower of Sanatana Dharma be worried about few people trying to spoil its image? If one believes and lives as per Sanatana Dharma or Hinduism as it is widely called, he knows that there is only One All Pervading Supreme Power; now it would apply whatever religious practice one wants to follow - he should not see a difference between a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian for that matter. He also should understand and realize that difference of opinion existed even within Hinduism. Let us forget the innumerable castes but just see the fact that even in Vedic Philosophy we see different schools of thought viz. Advaita, Dwaitha, Vishishta Advaita so on and so forth.
So you do not know your own roots but blow trumpet about you being a great Hindu and raise voice against a movie which just takes a look at the current situation from its perspective.
One movie may decide to highlight flaws in Hinduism may be another one picks Islam or Christianity. I recollect the hue and cry when Vishwaroopam was released. Atleast in case of Vishwaroopam the maker and the lead actor was a proclaimed atheist but here almost all of the crew except the lead actor follow Hinduism as a religion.
Is not the religion defamed by fake Babas and Gurus - who claim to have direct link to God and are they not fooling the followers. If not all, do we have atleast few? Forget few do we even have one? Then I think the movie is not wrong. To satisfy followers of all religions, all movies need not highlight what is going wrong in each one of them.
One movie may decide to highlight flaws in Hinduism may be another one picks Islam or Christianity. I recollect the hue and cry when Vishwaroopam was released. Atleast in case of Vishwaroopam the maker and the lead actor was a proclaimed atheist but here almost all of the crew except the lead actor follow Hinduism as a religion.
Is not the religion defamed by fake Babas and Gurus - who claim to have direct link to God and are they not fooling the followers. If not all, do we have atleast few? Forget few do we even have one? Then I think the movie is not wrong. To satisfy followers of all religions, all movies need not highlight what is going wrong in each one of them.
Ignorance has led to intolerance. One is not not able to tolerate the teachings of another religion. Why so? Accept it if you so will, else reject it. In a very positive debate, argue on that and see if you can drive the point. But don't try to suppress it; as the more you suppress, the more it would bounce back.
Another story floating in the social media is that the protagonist of the movie says that instead of wasting 20 rupees in doing milk abhisheka of Siva Linga that goes down the drain, why not donate it to poor. The funny part is that people are asking instead of spending 200 rupees to buy this movie's ticket, why not donate it to 10 poor people? BTW, who forced them to watch this movie? Now that they spent the money and got this notion that money spent on movie ticket can be used for charity, it should be a lesson learnt from this movie. Let them not watch any more movies and give away that money for charity. Why to blame this movie for making them spend 200 rupees; instead it has saved them from wasting few more hundreds in future.
Another story floating in the social media is that the protagonist of the movie says that instead of wasting 20 rupees in doing milk abhisheka of Siva Linga that goes down the drain, why not donate it to poor. The funny part is that people are asking instead of spending 200 rupees to buy this movie's ticket, why not donate it to 10 poor people? BTW, who forced them to watch this movie? Now that they spent the money and got this notion that money spent on movie ticket can be used for charity, it should be a lesson learnt from this movie. Let them not watch any more movies and give away that money for charity. Why to blame this movie for making them spend 200 rupees; instead it has saved them from wasting few more hundreds in future.
Rather than seeing a movie as just a story being told may be with some message, making it a point of national debate has only helped those who worked behind the movie as the movie is set to become all time highest grosser at the BO.
As I write this blog, I know that I am also taking sides but I strongly believe that we have far more serious and important things to debate on, to reach consensus on and move on with developmental and welfare activities than fight in the name of religion, conversion, ghar wapsi and so on.
PS: I have not seen the movie so far and do not think will see it before it hits the small screen or DVD release
As I write this blog, I know that I am also taking sides but I strongly believe that we have far more serious and important things to debate on, to reach consensus on and move on with developmental and welfare activities than fight in the name of religion, conversion, ghar wapsi and so on.
PS: I have not seen the movie so far and do not think will see it before it hits the small screen or DVD release
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