Ready Faces Ban
Ready Faces Ban
Ready has already been announced as a hit, and has already raked in a lot of moolah at the box office. Now, some religious outfits have asked for a ban on the movie, because of the lyrics in the song, Character Dheela, a part of which seems to offend their religious sentiments. The lyrics in question, ‘raas leela’ have traditionally been used to describe Lord Krishna’s activities with the Gopis, but has gone down in slang as doing something that is unneeded and too over the top. The outfit has asked to revoke the censor certificate of the movie. A notice has been issued to Salman Khan, Bhushan Kumar and the lyricist, and they have to reply to the notice within three weeks.
Movie makers, religious organizations and the so called moral police have always courted trouble. While films like Bandit Queen, Fire and others actually faced many protests, there are mainstream movies that seem to create a hullaballoo about nothing, and the protests pipe down once the movie releases. This has been seen to be a common ploy for increasing the buzz and creating an aura of ‘us against them’ by many producers and filmmakers of late.
