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FunnyFaceKing
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13 Dec 2010, 4:10 pm

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Political interference in Bollywood!
Aarushi Nigam, TNN, Dec 14, 2010, 12.00am IST

It was Shah Rukh who suffered from Asperger's Syndrome in " My Name Is Khan", but a few days before its release, the film's hero rubbed the Shiv Sena the wrong way.

After SRK's comments criticising the exclusion of Pakistani cricketers from the IPL, the Shiv Sena took the remarks to be anti-national, anti-Marathi and launched a verbal and physical tirade against the film, demanding it be banned.

"Shah Rukh should go to Pakistan if he wants to speak in favour of Pakistani players," said Shiv Sena leader Anil Parab, who led a protest to SRK's house, Mannat. "This is the issue of patriotism and Shah Rukh should not interfere in politics," opined another party leader, who seemed to take it to heart that Shah Rukh had been staying in Mumbai for years but "never spoke anything for Marathi (sic)."

When advance bookings for the film opened, Sena goons entered cinema halls, threatening people and ransacking theatres, even tearing the screen in some. Mumbai police provided security to halls scheduled to show the film, but despite police assurances, hall owners did not want to take a chance and many of them closed advance bookings for the film for some time.

Read more: Political interference in Bollywood! - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ente ... z181olUHoT

That's the Far Right for ya!

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13 Dec 2010, 5:39 pm

I totally did not understand why the people were mad. I know about the whole cricket match-fixing deal, but what comments were the militants mad at?

And I have some horror stories about the far left too. Extremism just sucks.

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13 Dec 2010, 5:56 pm

I looked up more on Youtube, but it was all in Hindi. I can't say for sure; but, apparently, this group is super patriotic and they hate Pakistan. SRK got on their bad side back in February for some reason that had to do with Pakistan. And now, SRK's character in "My Name is Khan" made a comment about how the Pakistani Cricket team was treated unfairly.

Methinks this group was looking for a pretext to ransack those theaters and this was it.

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16 Jan 2011, 2:56 am

It's very good. Khan is the post 9/11 Forest Gump. It's very inspiring.

The lead character is a Muslim married to a Hindu. I can definitely see how fundamentalist right wing groups wouldn't like it. In one scene, he confronts the leader of a group of would be terrorists. I loved it.

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16 Jan 2011, 11:34 pm

I've got My Name is Khan in my netflix queue.

When I saw "goons" I thought it meant members of "Something Awful" forums.

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17 Jan 2011, 8:12 am

Verdandi wrote:

I've got My Name is Khan in my netflix queue.

When I saw "goons" I thought it meant members of "Something Awful" forums.

Ditto.

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