Aanand L Rai and Shah Rukh Khan’s new film “Zero” in­sults the Sikh ar­ti­cle of faith -Kir­pan. Sikhs are con­tem­plat­ing le­gal and so­cial ac­tion against the lead ac­tor and the pro­duc­ers. Mum­bai Sikhs are prepar­ing to pur­sue the Cen­tral Board of Film Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

Zero scores zero with the Sikhs. In a scene, the lead ac­tor and dar­ling of the masses in In­dia -Shah Rukh Khan wears un­der­gar­ments with a Kir­pan on top. The Kir­pan  –one of the five sa­cred ar­ti­cles of the Sikh faith for a de­vout Sikh.

It is not only rep­re­hen­si­ble but ab­solutely un­nec­es­sary. In the trailer, al­ready watched by mil­lions, though the Kir­pan is vis­i­ble with great dif­fi­culty for a few sec­onds, it is promi­nently dis­played in the posters.

First as the pro­ducer of Man­marziyan and now as the pro­ducer of Zero star­ring lead­ing ac­tor Shah Rukh Khan, pro­ducer Aanand L. Rai is again play­ing with the sen­ti­ments of the Sikhs. Shock­ingly, the Cen­tral Board of Film Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is full of pur­blind peo­ple who can­not stop the film fra­ter­nity for in­dulging in such blas­phemy in the name of artis­tic lib­erty.

We will now get the typ­i­cal ex­cuse from the In­dian me­dia and self-pro­claimed sec­u­lar­ists that, “af­ter all, it is just a movie”. Yes, it is, but Bol­ly­wood must un­der­stand that it is test­ing Sikh pa­tience.  As Bol­ly­wood seems to be tak­ing Sikhs for granted, Sikhs will have to take im­me­di­ate so­cial and le­gal ac­tion against the per­pe­tra­tors and the CBFC.

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Bol­ly­wood is test­ing the pa­tience of the Sikhs, yet again. DS­GMC gen­eral sec­re­tary Man­jin­der Singh Sirsa has filed a po­lice com­plaint in the mat­ter. Kul­want Singh of the Singh Sabha Mum­bai , speak­ing to WSN has said, “This is dis­turb­ing and un­ac­cept­able. We will im­me­di­ately take it up with the Cen­sor Board.”