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Singh is King to re-shoot; MTV
faces music
WSN Network
 MUMBAI: Though
the alarm bells had been sounded by Sikhs in Mumbai and various
organisations more than six months back, the producers of the movie,
Singh is King and the Censor Board of India woke up last week in
damage control mode. (for details of previous warnings read Pride
and Prejudice at www.worldsikhnews.com)
As the Sikhs
were rightly irked by the portrayal of a Sikh character with a
turban and without the beard and the moustache, played by leading
actor, Akshay Kumar, the producer of the movie, Vipul Shah opened
dialogue with Sikh representatives in Mumbai.
Showing
ignorance and repentance, the producer and the actor agreed to
reshoot the movie in such a way as to satisfy the hurt sentiments of
the Sikhs. Though hard to swallow, the producers also decided to
destroy some two hundred thousand posters of the movie which were
offensive to the Sikhs.
On the other
hand, oblivious of the behind the scenes developments between the
Sikh representatives and the Hindi film producers, the music channel
MTV went to town in Mumbai showing a Sikh as a peeping tom in huge
billboards.
Already irked by
the disgusting portrayal in Laughter Challenge in its new avtar,
Sikh youth in Mumbai ransacked the head office of MTV which resulted
in the offensive posters being withdrawn from all over the city of
Mumbai.
Akshay Kumar has
extended an apology but MTV is silent and to expect an apology from
Sidhu the anchor of Laughter Challenge is not easy.
As a section of
the media may want us to believe, no clean chit has been given to
the movie, Singh is King, nor is the MTV chapter over yet. As
Kulwant Singh, the general secretary of Sri Guru Singh Sabha,
Mumbai, who has been in the thick of the negotiations told WSN, “We
will see the final movie and only then allow it to be screened and
this has been agreed by the producer, director and main actor.” He
said as far as this movie is concerned, the Censor Board of India
has been cooperative and accommodating. In the next phase of our
struggle, we would engage them for a permanent solution to the
question of portrayal of Sikhs in Indian Cinema and on various
satellite channels.
18
June,
2008
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