Texas, Nov 8: The Global Hindu Heritage Foundation has strongly condemned scenes and dialogues in the film 'Denikaina Ready.
GHHF
said in a statement released in Texas that the portrayal of Brahmin
community is demeaning, belittling, mocking and contemptuous. Further
the movie ridiculed the Hindu customs and rituals, glorified the
deception, elevated the dishonesty, promoted the vulgarity, encouraged
fraudulency, and attacked the very fabric of Hindu morals and ethics.
The film makers showed no respect for the aesthetic values, the
sentiments of the community, human decency, honesty, and Hindu rituals,
said the statement.
GHHF demanded the government, Central
Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and the movie producers, directors
and actors to withdraw the movie immediately until further
re-certification. "We support the efforts of various organizations
demanding the withdrawal of the movie from showing and also to file
criminal case against the producer Manchu Mohan Babu and director
G.Nageswara Reddy under Indian Penal Code. We also demand the
government to conduct a thorough investigation of the incident where the
Brahmin priests and Brahmin community members who were demonstrating
peacefully in front of Mohan Babu’s residence were beaten by sticks,
live in front of police, public and TV media and bring justice by
punishing the culprits who roughed up the priests", the press release
said.
The GHHF explained why it was demanding withdrawal
of the movie. It said following are some of the examples that are
considered offensive and insulting in the Telugu movie “Denikaina
Ready”:
1. Brahmin Archakas, who participated in Chandi
Homa, were shown to have eaten Haleem, which contains meat of a sheep.
The Director was clever enough to patch the instance at a later scene in
the movie by casually mentioning that it was not Haleem, but vegetarian
kheer. Was this necessary?
2. A young Brahmin priest is
often called by the Hero as Pilakaleni Pilla Pantulu or Pilakaleni Pilla
Sastry (meaning a priest without his Shikha, which has a very deep
spiritual meaning, obviously not known to the ignorant and arrogant
producer, director and the actors of the movie), which is quite
offensive and disgusting to the entire Priest community.
3.
One of the young Brahmin priests who is invited to perform Chandi Homa
is projected as being behind a young Muslim neighbor girl using
unnecessary romantic language which is totally unrelated to the flow of
the movie and depicts CHEAP comedy.
4. Actor Brahmanandam
in the movie repeatedly mentions that “You Brahmins will do what ever it
takes, if you are given Sambhavana” which portrays Brahmins as beggars
and dependent on people’s alms.
5. One of the Brahmin
priest’s wife is shown to be a very loose lady, who is always on the
lookout for men visiting her home, trying to get them involved in
sensual talk. This is simply demeaning for any Hindu lady leave alone a
Brahmin lady.
6. In one other scene, the Brahmin priest’s
wife is shown to be accepting an inter-caste marriage for her son with
the girl of Naidu caste, not because of the love for her son, but
mentioning “Money is everything” since the girl is from a rich family.
This truly pulls down the morale of all families; let aside Brahmins
projecting all is acceptable if money is thrown.
7. Worse
of all, a Muslim whose name is Suleiman, who is the Hero of the movie
(real life name: Manchu Vishnu) acts as a Brahmin priest, will be
singing a movie song instead of Holy Mantras, totally demeaning the Homa
and Yagna rituals in Hinduism.
8. In one other instance
all the Brahmin Archakas who would be performing the Chandi Homa, simply
stop chanting the mantras twice, because they are shown to be greedy of
Rs. 2000 offered by the heroine. Any veda mantra or vedic chanting is
not supposed to be stopped from the beginning to the end unless
prescribed so. What was the director trying to show by projecting this
cheap comedy?
The international organization has demanded
that case must be filed against the Central Board of Film Certification
for it’s total failure to enforce it’s own guidelines. It also said that
it is astonishing to find about the laxity shown on the part of CBFC in
granting Certification, ignoring it’s own guidelines and besmearing the
high standards that are supposed to represent the best of the society.
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