Being a muslim this really reminds me of Salman Rushdie’s Satani Verses, even that was a novel where he used islamic personality and created a world where things that happened were his brain’s creation.

As far as i know, anything that challenges the religious scripture, even if its an isolated view, its considered offensive.

“Ashok Sharma, joint secretary of the Northern Indian Motion Pictures Distributors’ Association, told Outlook, “Except for the soft-porn variety,there isn’t much demand for English movies in Punjab. No cinema hall in Punjab had approached us for The Da Vinci Code. So, ban or no ban, it wasn’t going to be shown in Punjab.”

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20060612&fname=Punjab+DA+Vinci+%28F%29&sid=1

The French secularism or laicité is something else than what you suggest. To have a clearer view you may look up the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2903663

Aamir is for the displaced people to get rehabilitated and so is the SC, so i dont know where the problem is.

Was Aamir Khan right in his views? And did he do the right thing by coming out in the open or was he doing this for publicity? One can go on debating. What is important to note is that Aamir Khan never really opposed the raising of the level of the dam. He just spoke for the proper rehabilitation of the people affected in the process. This is also the concern, not just of the NBAÂ’s prime mover Medha Patkar, but also of the Supreme Court. Then why does the youth wing of the BJP have a problem with Aamir Khan? Could it be that the party has run out of issues to protest on and had been out of the news for too long?

Just because he voiced his opinions, the politicians should tear his movie posters and burn effigies? They want him to apologize…sheesh

and i thought the work is already underway and the height is being raised??..maybe not

Hail Mogambo!

Is there no end to our leaders greatness?

Truly, he is the most humble, caring, and kind. The very face of India.

Hail Modi-go!

Regarding Fanaa… I am against banning anything, however, let’s set the record straight.

Aamir initally said that “All the work on the dam should stop until the displaced villagers are settled.” We all know what this means: It’s a way of un-democratically doing something which cannot be done by due process. That is, they tried to stop work on the dam – Supreme court said nothing doing. So now they want work stopped until a condition is met. When will the condition be met? Never. No matter how many villagers you compensate, they will keep bringing new claims in from all kinds of people claiming that they have been displaced. This will go on for years/decades, and all the while the work on the dam will be put on hold.

Nice try. But it’s been done before. Try something new.

If the villagers are not compensated, then that is wrong and they should go to court. The very fact that they have not followed the due process of law (despite enormous sympathy they wield) goes to show that the really affected people have been compensated well (as the Gujarat govt claims), and these new claims are spurious.

Secondly, even the Congress is up in arms against Aamir, and so are the Multiplex owners. In fact, Modi met the producers and promised them protection. But the theater owners refused to budge – apparently there’s also an issue with the high rates multiplexes are demanding and Chopra does not wants them to lower rates.

M. Nam

God help these mavalees

heh… well, so do the freemasons, bang across sterling cinema, and the theosophists are near churchgate, and ummm the rajneeshis are in pune, and if you look around you’ll find the ananda margis hiding somewhere…

you almost sound like you want to go on a cult/secret society hunt…;)

Jokes apart. It is silly to engage people who argue on the lines of “ooooh but you wouldnt react like this if it was your god who was being blasphemeed!!”

Like the the last poster… im fairly agnostic, but to the believers my question is : If you say god is all powerfull, why would he need nitwits like you to safeguard the divine image of his avatars, his prophets or even his ‘children’?”