Dasavathaaram: useless religious controversy!
Just as we were rejoicing the audio / trailer launch and waiting eagerly for Dasavathaaram comes the dampener. Minor and insignificant political organizations continue the dangerous and irritating trend in India of gaining publicity at the sake of big movies. Of course, Kamal has been a favourite target due to his non-conformist / controversial ideas. One is worried about the negative publicity affecting the movie, similar to the ‘anti-Gandhi’ charges preceding Hey Ram
The matter has already reached the court! Here is the extensive media mileage derived by VHP, Hindu Munnani and other outfits that have sprung out of the blue: Behindwoods 1 | Thatstamil 1 | ChennaiOnline | MSN | Thatstamil 2 | IndiaGlitz | Buzz18 | Dinamalar | Dinathanthi | Behindwoods 2 | News Today | Webdunia.
As if politico-religious folks aren’t doing enough, we have undue criticism even in the blogosphere, without even the movie being released!
[With extensive inputs from Ananth]
[Picture courtesy: BehindWoods]
May 9th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Enough is Enough.. at this rate The film might end up all cut n shown.We have to do somthing abt this.. if not Marmayogi will face such a problem too n also his next other films…Our Man needs a break!! I am working on something in which we all could show the support to kamal n hopfully get dasa released in one piece as intended by Kamal!I shall post the updates soon. Freedom2Kamal!!
Krishna
May 10th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Kamal should have been born in Europe. He might have gone on to become another Bernardo Bertolucci or Roman Polanski. He is simply wasted in this sex-starved country of religious zealots.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Krishnan, you hit the nail on the head with the last sentence! That’s a perfect statement.
May 10th, 2008 at 7:40 am
thats’ quite the agony and wish , we kamalians always have… thanks Krishnan for putting it in a sentence …
May 12th, 2008 at 3:42 am
If the whole saga surrounding the controversy is amicably resolved, in no way does this guarantee anything… it may be best to assume all publicity - good, contoversial, inflammatory or critical - despite its obvious annoyance for the film and the fans - may be valuable, if one believes there is no such thing as bad publicity. Anyway, the man has seen all, been there and done great…
All hail the Man of the Moment - Kamal.