Bollywood At It Again

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Just saw this in the Tribune-

Looks like Sanjay Dutt has found some accomplices this time, as he once again attempts to hurt the sentiments of Sikhs. Nice to see people standing up to protest against this garbage. Does anyone know what is actually said or done in the film?

Sikh students seek ban on ‘Shabd’

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 11

The producers of Sanjay-Dutt-Aishwarya Rai-Zayed Khan starrer “Shabd” might have some trouble in the making.

The jokes that lead actor of the film Sanjay Dutt cracks in his urge to make the audiences laugh have actually “scarred” the sensibilities of Sikh students across the city.

Over 300 Sikh students gathered on the Panjab University campus to protest against the film and its language and demanded the film be taken off the city cinema halls. They said the film should be screened only after obliteration of objectionable portions. A letter to this effect has been despatched to Chairperson, Censor Board of India.

“If our requests are not heeded we will be forced to resort to unsavoury acts, like preventing the screening of the shows in the city’s cinema halls,” said Prabh Sharan Bir Singh, vice-president, Sikh Students Federation, today.

Sporting black ribbons and black placards, the protestors also threatened demonstrations all over the region. “We want absolute propriety in matters of arts, be it performing arts or visual arts. Even caricatures with Sikh characters at motifs are in utterly bad taste,” said Dalbir Singh, president, and Students’ Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU).

They have also forwarded representations in this matter to the President of India, the Prime Minister, the Punjab Governor and the Punjab CM.