Incomprehensible Protest

• Vishwaroop poster.

Recently, a movie directed and written by senior celebrity Kamal Hasan accosted a ban row. According to the Muslim Organizations, some scenes in the movie were against their religious sentiments. Hours after the news was publicized, indefinite protests post-hastily rocked the streets. I can bet on this that many among those protestants never even knew the reason behind the protest. When politicians of the ruling party of South Indian state stepped into the support of the protestors, emotional Kamal Hasan declared that he might leave the state and settle somewhere else where his safety was ensured. To veterans luck, many directors and film stars spoke in his support and firmly stood by him in this difficult time of his. When the movie was released on its scheduled date, protestors vandalized all those theaters and movie parlors where the movie was screened. The scenes that happened in the protests against Kamal Hasan’s movie were parallel to those which took place before the release of Shahrukh Khan’s My Name Is Khan.            
   
    These protests luminously reveal that people are getting more and more addicted to violence. You browse through any review of Vishwaroop. The first sentence you’ll get to read is ‘the protests and the ban was unjust’. I firmly agree to the sentence quoted by the reviewers because it is verily wrong to remonstrate a movie which displays something authentic. I don’t want to talk about the political perspective as I know that after seeing such indefinite protests, they jumped in support, just to fulfill their selfish motives - increasing the number of votes.

• The inconsequential protests.

 But I have a set of questions which I would like our citizens to answer: Why are our citizens so sensitive on the religious issues? Why do our people step into protests before clearing and sorting out things? Why do our people over-react where those over-reactions are actually not necessary? Were our people sleeping when Digvijay Singh insulted Rakhi Sawant and Arvind Kejriwal by comparing them with each other; when a self-claimed godman added insult to the injuries of a victim’s kin; when some ministers passed out shameful comments on the dignity of our females? Couldn’t they come out on streets, with the same ebullience, to protests against the indigenous conditions of our farmers?

        
      Such questions always remain recondite because we don’t want to contemplate on them. We find protesting, enjoying a fight or a squabble, carefully listening to the abuses and then using them more crucial than pondering on some serious issues where our contemplations are actually required.

      Imposition of a ban row and the protests against Kamal Hasan’s movie were unjust and could have been averted if politicians would not have poured oil in the fire and if people would have patiently waited for the discussions between the Director and Experts, instead of turning hysteric.