Paatal Lok, Amazon Prime Video’s latest India original series
has been receiving great reviews from audience and critics. However, the
series, produced by actress Anushka Sharma, has also been facing flak.
On Saturday, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, former Akali Dal MLA and Delhi
Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee president, tweeted that the series
must be banned for maligning ‘religious harmony’. Referring to a rape
scene in the series, he said: “Sikhs are Saviours of women. The whole
world recognises Sikhs for their Sewa and Humanity but shame on
@AnushkaSharma @PrimeVideoIN for showing Sikhs as Rapists”.
In a video, he calls for a ban on the series, and threatens legal action for defaming the community.
Sirsa had earlier called for a ban on Netflix’s Sacred Games
for hurting the religious feelings of Sikhs. This was in connection to a
scene in which SaiF Ali Khan’s character throws a ‘kada’ into the sea.
He had threatened to sue the makers of the series, including Anurag
Kashyap if the scene was not deleted.
“I wonder why Bollywood continues to disrespect our religious
symbols! Anurag Kashyap deliberatly puts this scene in #SacredGamesS2
where Saif Ali Khan throws his Kada in sea! A KADA is not an ordinary
ornament. It’s the pride of Sikhs & a blessing of Guru Sahib,” he
had said.
Produced by Anushka's Clean Slate Films, Paatal Lok features
Jaideep Ahlawat, Neeraj Kabi, Gul Panag, Abhishek Banerjee, Swastika
Mukherjee, among others. Earlier this week, a legal notice has been sent
to Anushka over an alleged Nepali slur used in Paatal Lok.
Bharatiya Gorkha Yuva Parisangh (BhaGoYuP), the youth wing of Bharatiya
Gorkha Parisangh, had started an online petition demanding that a scene
in the series should be muted and the corresponding subtitle is uploaded
again with a disclaimer as the scene contains a sexual slur directed at
the Gorkha community.
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