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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