 Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 7: All parties Migrants Co-ordination Committee (APMCC) the apex body of Kashmiri Pandit Hindus today staged a massive protest demonstration at Jammu against the recently released film Haider saying the song Bismil has portrayed the ancient Sun Temple (Martand Temple) of Kashmir as Devils Den thus hurting the religious sentiments of Hindus all over the world. The activists of the organization condemned the producer director of the film Vishal Bhardwaj for the conspiracy to denigrate the 1700-year-old Hindu temple seeking immediate ban on the film and unconditional apology from the producer, director as well as Censor Board of India and Archeological Survey of India for clearing the film. The activists also burnt a poster of film Haider which included photographs of Vishal Bhardwaj, Censor Board and Archeological Survey of India.APMCC leaders said that their organization had organized a grand Hawan at the temple premises in October 2, 2009 after many years adding by allowing shooting of a film inside the temple and depicting it as Den of the Devil was intolerable demanding immediate deletion of the song from the film or re-shooting the entire sequence. The activists threatened that a nationwide agitation against the filmmaker will be launched and sought the intervention of I&B minister Prakash Javedkar in the episode.Vinod Pandit, Chairman APMCC, King Bharati, Senior Journalist and National Spokesperson APMCC, MK Yogi, President, Purohit Sabha, Martand Tirth Improvement Charitable Trust, Ravi Kachroo, Film Maker, Kuldeep Saproo, Music Director, Sunil Kumar Trakroo, Sr Coordinator APMCC, Punjab, Advocate Arun Kandroo were also present on the occasion. |
