Amritsar, Punjab: In a last ditch effort to stall the screening of controversial movie Nanak Shah Fakir in the entire country, the Dal Khalsa wrote to Home Minister of India urging the Union government to act with Godspeed and stop the screening of the movie slated to be released tomorrow on April 17.
“As the home minister of the country you have the prime responsibility to ensure respect for the diverse communities and their religious sentiments. Subverting the faith of even one person is sacrilege and in this case the movie hits at the belief system and centuries old heritage of millions of Sikhs”, said Kanwar Pal Singh party’s secretary for political affairs in a letter faxed to the office of Rajnath Singh.
Stop Release of Nanak Shah Fakir Movie
He further wrote that as in the wake of widespread protests, the government of Punjab has suspended the screening of the movie for two months, hence the Home Ministry should take similar decision by suspending the screening exactly as India did in the case of BBC sponsored documentary film “India’s Daughter”.
Feeling disgusted by the insensitive response of the NDA government towards Sikh sensitivities he said all attempts to convince the film-maker to see reason, to let the censor board understand the Sikh side of things, to convince the minister for information and broadcasting to take initiative to stop the slated release has yielded no results.
He said the recent utterances of Harinder Singh Sikka were further enraging us. Instead of making amends and repenting on his blasphemous blunders, the film maker was resorting to twisted logic and name calling to the devout section of the community which has exposed the anti-Sikh aspects of his movie and spearheaded the campaign against his designs.
Commenting on film-makers view that he was unhappy that those who worship Guru Nanak in Punjab will not be able to see the movie, Kanwar Pal Singh responded that people of Punjab would be better off not to see falsehood and blasphemy.