Objection sustained
Aaja Nachle – the song started creating controversy after the film was released. Though the songs were out in the market around 2 months before the release. If the sections had raised objection then, the producers would have dubbed the line by the time of release. And as far as I remember, mochi and sunaar used to be professions, when did they become castes? Oh right, with the mandal thing!
Anyway, I sometimes wonder how the American and British films and sitcoms use the word president, prime-minister, queen mother and get away with jokes, conspiracies and all sort of things. Every time, I use a joke which is directly or indirectly pointed at a famous personality, I am told not to create controversies. Everyone around is ready to raise objections, on anything and everything under the sun. The sad part is, even if the objections raised are inane, they are sustained.
But then, controversies help. I know of people who want to make something just to create a scandal, write something just to upset a section of readers. “Badnaam honge to kya naam naa hoga”.
I wonder if Paakeezah was released today, people will object to “Inhi logon ne” song too. It talks about Rangrez, bajajwa and all. Ban it, ban it. Sujata will be banned because it uses the word Achhoot. Let’s make a list of all the oldies that might raise an eye-brow if released now and will demand an Objection. An objection that’ll be be sustained.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Manasvi, Indians are becoming more and more chutiyas day by day. It might be easy to point the finger at these politicians but everyone is responsible!
Why doesn’t the Naxals or such group form a group like the Telugu movie “Tagore” and start killing all these assoles who waste public lives, money and time? Then at least they will be scared and do their duty properly!
I believe that the common idiom in hindi goes like this:
ch**aar bhi khud ko sunaar samajhta hai.
the sc/st people probably caught it and hence the furore.
The filmmakers probably wanted to use this vernacular phrase and even changed it to suit audience sensibilities.
I guess we have become quite intolerant. But still, the comment can hurt the ego of some community and was also not very imp in the song. To drop it from the song was probably a better idea.
I guess we Indians lost our sense of humor totally!
not really macchar ..there are these certain ppl who do this for their interest …coz look..whoever i know dont object to such things …i beleive all who visit pfc belong to this category (most of them)…so only the remaining handful of ppl have problems ….
@Machchar (3)
How come?
did not Indian audience just now provide big commercial success to OSO?
Its said by all and even by great genious people who know cinema too much, that it was all humour show.:)
How can you say, we have lost humour totally.
Please listen to Black Eyed Peas!
Rk/Machchar…
can u guys see Krysh’s post now??
Machar is my hero….
I think people who object or do dharna’s outside the cinema halls should be thrashed with wet relaxo chappals. Saale dharti pe bhoj dhakkans. It is very clear that these people just wanted to create an issue out of nothing.
It really saddens me to see that we still cannot accept a joke/sarcasm about ourselves.
I sometimes wonder what the Indian audience will do if a show like “Seinfeld” or “Friends” was produced in India.
The humour in OSO is juvenile when compared to what happens in American spoofs and sitcoms.
Well it less to do with one’s sense of humor than with one’s insecurity.
There is also another angle to it.
I would like to point out that ours is a very diverse society unlike what he have in the US. A joke can be intepreted in different ways in India and can surely run the risk of hurting a community.
But we do have our share of butt’s of jokes, in sardarji’s, gujju’s, marwari’s etc….. ( i mean no offence to anyone) they have learnt to live with it and in fact dont mind one is made.
Coming to the fifteen minutes of fame and India becoming intolerant, i would like to say that with the advent of television reporting, there are more news channels ready to play charades with disgruntled groups than when we had only our one only DD.
THIS ENTIRE THING ON PFC including Mansavi’s write-up is so indescribably shameful! O, the pity of it!
Panini abbey dakkan, what entire thing? What exactly is shameful? What is your problem buddy :D There is free piles operation offer in cooper hospital…You should not miss it! Go there immediately!! Jaaa bhaag!! Jaldi!!
Munnabhai: Abbe Circuit…Tu kya itna deep sochrela hain?
Circuit: Bhai…Main yeh soch raha hu ki bhagwaan bhi kya cheez hain!!
Munnabhai: Abbe, tu achanak bhagwan ke barein mein kyon soch raha hain?
Circuit: Bhai…bhagwaan itne karodo alag alag chutiye logo ko banaya hain…sacch mein talent hain usmein!!
Munnabhai: Sunn…har aadmi mein ek na ek chutiyapan toh hotha hain….koi perfect nahi…
Circuit: Haan bhai bilkul sahi bola….Magar jab bhi main “Panini” jaise logo ko dektha hu na…mujhe lagta hain ki bhagwaan kuch logo mein chutiyapan thoda jyaada hein daal diya!! Dekh saala Shakepeer ki aulad…
Munnabhai: Abbe…ab dekh PFC itna bada site hain…kitne log aate hain…har ek banda apna shanpatti dikhane ka try karta hain…ab yeh aur ek…jaane de…howle log bahut hain….
Circuit: Magar bhai…main bilkul serious hoon…Yeh shaana aur ek baar england ki rani jaisa “Oh the pity of it” bola toh saale ko idarich tok daalunga!!!
Munnabhai: Chal…cool hoja…Gandhiji kya bola tha…
Circuit: Gandhi bola Mara Mara Mara!!! Is Panini ko bhi maar dete hain aur hum bhi Mara Mara Mara chillayenge!!!
Munnabhai: Abbe chutiye…Gandhiji Mara Mara nahi bola!! Rama Rama Rama bola tha!!
Circuit: Oops…Bhai mujhe lagrela hain ki main pehle ka do akshar miss kar diya!! hee hee!!!
Political zombies and their passion for cinema! I would have thought that was an apt description of some of the ‘passionites’ but they have a far better lineage. Didn’t Hitler and Mussolini had this undying ‘passion for cinema’? So now we know from where are these spiritual aedes are coming from!