SINS: Bollywood Vs. Censors
by Andre Soares
Another round of Bollywood vs. Religious Censorship: Vinod Pande’s new film, Sins, which depicts a Roman Catholic priest having an affair with a girl half his age, has outraged Catholic radicals who do not accept the negative portrayal of members of the clergy. They have demanded that the film be withdrawn, but Pande has decided to go ahead with its release. "Isn’t this fascism? Such intolerance for creative work is not acceptable," the director remarked in a Sify Movies interview.
According to Joseph Dias, general secretary of India’s Catholic Secular Forum, "religion needs to be a personal affair and should not be a subject for entertainment or for commercial use." Does that mean that films such as Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and Cecil B. DeMille’s The King of Kings and The Ten Commandments should also be banned?
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