No objections to this movie from Hindus?
I am an American who lives outside Washington DC. I love Bollywood movies, and we have a cinema nearby that shows first-run Hindi films. So I saw "OMG" Oct. 2. As another reviewer pointed out, there was a similar movie, The Man Who Sued God, made in Australia in 2001, but I haven't seen it. Here is my question: I read all the reviews on imdb, I think all of them by Indians, and everyone loves this movie. But it certainly insults Hinduism. In light of the recent problems (riots, the deaths, etc.) with the "Innocence of Muslims" video on Youtube, doesn't this invite the same problems in India? I see it is based on a Gujerati play, but Gujerat was the state where only a few years ago thousands died in Hindu-Muslim rioting. That doesn't show a great deal of tolerance. Adding a token Imam for the Muslims and priest for the Christians doesn't change the focus of the movie, which is Hinduism. Any English-speaking movie I can think of ("Elmer Gantry," etc.) only attacks individuals who pervert religion, or specific issues like child abuse, not the basis of religion itself. "OMG" seems to attack Hinduism itself, but no one seems upset. Why??? I should add that I have read a lot about India, and the exact same issues were dealt with in a book by a French missionary, "Hindu Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies," by JA Dubois in the early 19th c., and of course the British brought up the exact same issues throughout the 19th and early 20th c. It just seems to me that this movie shows a very secular outlook which I find surprising. A similar movie made in the US would be the object of mass protests. Can anyone explain this for me?
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