The eagerly awaited Kamal-starrer “Dasavatharam” is releasing on June 6 (Friday). Producer Oscar Ravichandran disclosed this on May 20. The film will have the highest number of prints ever for an Indian movie, he said.
Kamal Haasan plays ten different roles in this “magnum opus” to be released initially in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi.
Meanwhile, the Madras High Court on May 20, further postponed till May 27 hearing in the case filed by Sri Vaishnava Dharma Samrakshana Society, represented by its president Govinda Ramanuja Dasa, objecting to certain scenes which, according to the petitioner, would wound the religious sentiments of Hindus.
A vacation bench comprising Justice K. Venkataraman and Justice M. Sathyanarayanann on May 20 adjourned the matter by a week after counsel for the producers submitted that it would take at least two weeks to make the required number of prints of the film.
Producer Ravichandran, in his counter affidavit, came down heavily on the petitioner, contending that such public interest writ petitions would incite communal disturbances. Provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Goondas Act should be invoked against the Vaishnavaite Society and its office-bearers for filing the “vexatioius PIL”.
Ravichandran claimed that “Dasavatharam’ in fact glorified the religious traditions and sentiments of not only Hinduism, but also Christianity and Sikhism, and that no scene in the film would cause disrepute to the “pranava mantra OM” and the Bhagavad Gita.
The producer further submitted that Govinda Ramanuja Dasa had filed the petition only to ‘ventilate his private malice’. The censor certificate had been issued to the film and the question of removing any scene at the choice of the petitioner did not arise at all. The petition was an attempt to upset and disturb the communal harmony and it should be dismissed, he pleaded.
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Dear everyone,
I just wanted to point out, for the record,that there is a difference between the Swami Govinda Ramanuja dasa in India and Govinda Ramanuja dasa in America. They might have the same name and Religion, but,They are two totally different people.
I personally know the Govinda Ramanuja dasa in America and he is a non-political, highly Spiritual-Godly person. I have know the american Govinda Ramanuja dasa for a number of years, and he is a very sane, thoughtful, highly intellegent, loving, caring and Highly Godly person. Who has helped many people, wheither Spiritually-Religiously, financially or other-wise. He has many friends that would vouch for what I said. The only thing you can say about the american Govinda Ramanuja dasa, while he was on Wikipedia, he was try to stop the mis-information, dominance and cult slant that certain ISKCON/Hare Krishna editors have done on most of the Hindu related articles on Wikipedia, by defending his conserns and opposition with Shruti or the original scriptures of India; the four Vedas, the main Upanishads, the Laws of Manu, the Vedanta sutra
Posted on August 8th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
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