After the Udta Punjab controversy, the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has now objected to “inappropriate use” of kirpan in a song in Varun Dhawan-John Abraham-starrer Dishoom. The body has requested Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to remove the song from the film.
DSGMC’s general secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa has written a letter to censor board chief Phalaj Nihalani, requesting that the song Ishq Ka Marz be removed from the film.
The song’s teaser was shared on Tuesday and it shows actor Jacqueline Fernandez wearing a ‘short kirpan’ on her waist. Sirsa wrote that the video was “highly offensive, mala fide and deliberate insult to the well-established Sikh tenets and customs”.
In his letter addressed to Pahlaj and makers of Dishoom, he has even threatened to initiate criminal proceedings if the song was not removed from the film, the report added.
“The song depicts a semi-clad actress (Ms. Jacquelin Fernandez) dancing with a kirpan with other co-stars actor Varun Dhawan & John Abraham, one of the five compulsory Kakaars (articles of faith in the religion) worn by a practising Sikh; dangling in front of her legs and supported by a cloth belt worn around the waist by the actress.”
DSGMC’s general secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa has written a letter to censor board chief Phalaj Nihalani, requesting that the song Ishq Ka Marz be removed from the film.
The song’s teaser was shared on Tuesday and it shows actor Jacqueline Fernandez wearing a ‘short kirpan’ on her waist. Sirsa wrote that the video was “highly offensive, mala fide and deliberate insult to the well-established Sikh tenets and customs”.
In his letter addressed to Pahlaj and makers of Dishoom, he has even threatened to initiate criminal proceedings if the song was not removed from the film, the report added.
“The song depicts a semi-clad actress (Ms. Jacquelin Fernandez) dancing with a kirpan with other co-stars actor Varun Dhawan & John Abraham, one of the five compulsory Kakaars (articles of faith in the religion) worn by a practising Sikh; dangling in front of her legs and supported by a cloth belt worn around the waist by the actress.”