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Punjab Newsline  More in World News... Hindus upset over France giving "The Love Guru" a "U" rating and call for movie's boycott
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Hindus upset over France giving "The Love Guru" a "U" rating and call for movie's boycott |
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Punjab Newsline Network
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
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NEVEDA(USA): Hindus are upset over France Board of Film Classification for reportedly giving Hollywood movie "The Love Guru" a "U" (valid for all audiences) classification and have stressed that it deserved highest "-18" (unsuitable for children under 18) rating.
Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu leader, has stated that they did not want the next generation of France, which is passing through highly impressionable age of under-18, growing up with a distorted view of Hinduism.
Meanwhile, Zed, who is president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, supported by some other organizations/leaders, has given a France-wide boycott call against "The Love Guru" by Hindus and other religious French stressing it lampoons Hinduism and Hindu concepts and uses Hindu terms frivolously.
Zed, who is president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, and who launched campaign against this movie starting in March, urging other people of faith (besides Hindus) also to boycott the movie, says, "Today it is Hinduism, tomorrow Hollywood might attempt to denigrate another religion/denomination."
A prominent Jewish Rabbi, Elizabeth W. Beyer of Nevada (USA), has also called for boycott of "The Love Guru" because it "…lampoons Hinduism, mocks Ashram life and Hindu philosophy…"
The antics of Guru Pitka of "The Love Guru" are a mockery of the esteemed institution of guru, who is a highly revered spiritual teacher/master/preceptor in Hinduism and who helps remove the ignorance of the seeker and who leads one from darkness to light. The guru-sishya (teacher-disciple) relationship lies at the heart of traditional Hinduism. Guru is often allied with the divine. Guru bestows spiritual knowledge totally free from selfish objectives, Zed stresses.
On the other hand, guru in "The Love Guru" instigates a bar fight, repeatedly narrates penis jokes, mocks yoga (one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy), wears female jewelry, mocks the concept of third eye, makes disciples drink tea passed through his nose, orders alligator soup, induces elephant copulation in front of the crowd, introduces himself as "His Holiness", lives in a lavish ashram staffed with scantily clad maids, and whose goal in life seems to appear on Oprah Winfrey show, Zed says.
When did Hindu gurus become available "for hire"? When and who started rating them? When did sishyas (disciples) started joining ashram for the sole purpose to make girls like them? Which Hindu ashram organizes fights of disciples with mops soaked in guru's urine? Which guru urinates in the midst of disciples? Rajan Zed asks while expressing concern about depictions in the movie.
Hinduism is the oldest and third largest religion of the world with about one billion followers and a rich philosophical thought and it should not be taken lightly. No faith, larger or smaller, should be ridiculed at, Zed says.
Meanwhile, signature campaign launched by Hindu groups against "The Love Guru" has crossed the 6,800 mark.
"The Love Guru" (88 minutes), a comedy starring Mike Myers (of Austin Powers fame), opened June 20 in USA and Canada and will be reportedly released in France on September 17.
Cinema was born on December 28, 1895, in a basement in Paris where Lumiere brothers showed such scenes as a train pulling into the railway station to a paying assemblage of 33. France has given us great films like La Regle du Jeu, Jules et Jim, La Grande Illusion, etc. |
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