Our “Roving reporter” from SN came up with this PK movie stuff. It looks like satire may be taking off in the sub-continent, and not before time!
Pune. The controversy surrounding the PK movie refuses to die down. In an unprecedented move, the Pune high court banned the screening of PK movie, following an FIR lodged by followers of Osho Ashram in Pune.
“The movie is not only disappointing but deceptive,” an angry protester from Osho Ashram said “After being lured by the nude poster of Aamir khan, we went to the theaters fully expecting an adult erotic movie. However, there were no sex scenes in the movie at all. We are utterly disappointed and feel cheated.”
“Our ashram known for our reputation for free sex booked all theatres in Pune so that all our members could enjoy the first day first show,” said a senior female Ashramite. “Every time a dancing scene would appear, we’d get excited and started whistling and cheering expecting some steamy scene to appear. But nothing of that sort was shown. It seems they edited it out of the movie. We are taking legal action for hurting our religious sentiments and under representing our ashram’s practices.”
The attorney representing the Ashram said, “The director Rajkumar Hirani used our ashram premises for shooting some scenes of ashramites in live tantric action. They also had an important Guru role in the film modeled after our founder Osho Rajneesh. We’re taking legal action that those scenes were edited out and instead of thanking Osho they thanked Sri Sri Ravishankar in the opening credits.”
When contacted for comments, Rajkumar Hirani said, “Well, I was under pressure from the producers. They felt that religious satires sell better than sex these days. We changed the script accordingly.”
We’ve received reports that Buddhist monks also have started protesting against the PK movie across the nation. “We feel we’ve been under-represented and discriminated against in the movie. They’ve made fun of every other major religion except Buddhism,” said a protester. “This is discriminatory. Everyone else’s getting free publicity except us.”
When Amir Khan was contacted regarding this, he said “Initially we had some shots of PK meditating in Buddhist monasteries. We edited it out of the movie because they weren’t funny enough. Later we tried showing PK meditating nude with a transistor. But since Buddhist monks are renunciates and can’t own transistors, we had to cut the scene as it won’t go well with the script for PK to be without his transistor.”
Vindhu Vinod Chopra, the producer of the movie agreed to make a sequel to the movie “PK Returns” to calm down the religious organizations and fringe groups that feel the’ve been under represented or mis-represented in the movie. “We’ve casted Sunny leone in the lead role against Ranbir Kapoor in the sequel. It’ll be a sizzler, and we’re expecting it to be a record breaking super hit.”
A Teaser for the Movie here:
I really hope readers have found out, this piece is a satirical comedy, a news item from
http://www.fakingnews.com
The true test of satire is that it is generative and expansive…mirth-filled laughter…combining disassembling with re-construction that requires no forethought or tactic; hence merry-making and spontaneity are its allies. It tends to tickle, as in artickulate, not as in anal-y-tickle.
Here’s a film that’s not satirical and will raise little laughter.
I like it.
http://putlocker.tn/cowspiracy-the-sustainability-secret/
More room for satire:
That dreadful place Saudi Arabia – where probably sophisticated weapons are conduited to terrorists in Europe, and incidentally 15 of the Sept 11th plotters were from – guilty of two absurdities this week.
First, and one hopes the subject for cartoonists:
The banning of building snowmen. There has been snow for the last three seasons in Northern Saudi Arabia, and a cleric has said building snowmen by children and their parents is anti-Islamic.
Asked on a religious website if it was permissible for fathers to build snowmen for their children after a snowstorm in the country’s north, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid replied: “It is not permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play and fun.”
Quoting from Muslim scholars, Sheikh Munajjid argued that to build a snowman was to create an image of a human being, an action considered sinful under the kingdom’s strict interpretation of Sunni Islam.
“God has given people space to make whatever they want which does not have a soul, including trees, ships, fruits, buildings and so on,” he wrote in his ruling.
Second, this poor guy who is not even a cartoonist, just started a website criticising the authorities. Punished by 1000 lashes in public, 50 a go weekly, and ten years in prison.
Remember his name: Raif Badawi. How on earth the UK and US governments can trade and interact with these monsters is beyond me. It’s all money, profit in arms and oil sales, etc. We need an ‘ethical’ foreign policy not based on monetary greed.
There is an ‘Amnesty International’ campaign to help Raif Badawi, do join it.
Irrespective of what the Pope says, we need more satire, not less. This satire about the PK movie is okay stuff. May satire continue to spread in all the dictatorships of the world.
So, Parmartha, pen down one satire about Sannyas, Neo-Sannyas, not any more Neo-Sannyas.
Maybe I should check google, where it leads when I write Neo Sannyas….
“It looks like satire may be taking off in the sub-continent, and not before time!”
Satire has been a literary phenomenon in India since the 1700s (about the same time the British were reading Jonathan Swift). Indians have used satire as social criticism and have also used satire as a weapon against westernisation.
Satire has been expressed through Indian poetry, prose, humorous writings, and letters. It is not as if satire is just arriving on the subcontinent.
I have seen the PK movie with English subtitles. I rate it at about 8 out of ten for an Indian movie, and four and a half for movies in general.
The piss-take of the guru scene in India is done pretty well, and the plot is ambitious. For your average consicousness it is a bit surreal, and some of it will be beyond the average audience.
However, it says something for the Indian middle-classes these days that they will turn up and watch this type of movie. I recommend trying to see it if you can, but bear in mind its length and that the best part of the movie is towards the end.
I am sure until time runs out, Osho’s birth and death will be celebrated just as other spiritual leaders who moved consciousness on a little.
Whether they would have wanted that is open to question. Each day has to be a celebration and each day is new and must, as a consequence, be treated equally.