Bajrang Dal workers burn posters of the Aamir Khan film PK during a demonstration in Bhopal yesterday.
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The “provocative, yet gentle” Aamir Khan-starrer PK has already crossed the Rs2bn mark at the domestic box office, but the Rajkumar Hirani directorial is facing ire of Hindutva elements in cities like Agra and Bhopal.
Featuring Aamir as an alien, the movie that released on December 19, takes a hard-hitting swipe at organised religion and godmen.
Accusing Aamir of double standards, and advising him to go to Pakistan, Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists jointly intruded into the Shree Talkies in Agra on Sunday evening to disrupt screening of PK.
Cinema hall management filed a complaint against protestors at the New Agra police station. Police said action would be taken.
Madan Sharma of the Bajrang Dal and Rajendra Garg of the VHP criticised Aamir saying that he was displaying his anti-Hindu sentiments.
Some of the Hindu activists also staged protest on Monday in front of Jyoti cinema hall in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Bajrang Dal state vice president Kamlesh Thakur said that PK should be immediately banned and they will submit memorandum to Madhya Pradesh government soon regarding the same.
Police superintendent Arvind Khare said: “People who were protesting in front of the hall have been stopped. They were not mishandled and no one was arrested”.
PK had also led to Twitter battle. Thanks to different opinions, #BoycottPK and #WeSupportPK were recently trending on the micro-blogging site.
Reacting to the controversies surrounding Hirani’s latest release, actor Boman Irani says people need to respect the viewpoint of the makers.
