[list_indonesia] [ppiindia] Re: A Muslim-Hindu movie kiss? Outrageous???
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- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:14:44 -0000
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--- In ppiindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ambon" <sea@xxxx> wrote:
> A Muslim-Hindu movie kiss? Outrageous, some Pakistanis say
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> By Salman Masood The New York Times
> Monday, March 28, 2005
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> ISLAMABAD, Pakistan With her sultry good looks and her slinky
dance moves, the Pakistani star who calls herself Meera has won the
adoration of moviegoers here.
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> But now she is afraid for her life. Her crime: The Indian news
media reported that she had kissed an Indian actor onscreen while
starring in an Indian film. To top it off, the actor in question,
Ashmit Patel, is a Hindu.
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> The film, "Nazar," by the Indian director Soni Radzan and her
husband, the producer Mahesh Bhatt, has not yet been released, but
the report that Meera kisses Patel in the film, which hit the news
media last month, has brought a storm of criticism.
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> Local news channels repeatedly flashed snippets of the movie: him
leaning toward her, their lips coming closer, her letting out a
heavy sigh. But then, because censors do not permit a kiss to be
shown on Pakistani television, the picture turns fuzzy and the rest
is left to the imagination.
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> Conservative Islamists are incensed at the thought of a Muslim
woman's kissing a Hindu. Some have called for an apology; others
have filed a lawsuit, demanding that she be censured for an "immoral
scene," though it is unclear what the court could do if it agreed.
Still others have issued death threats.
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> Meera, who says she is 24, acknowledged in a telephone interview
that she had kissed the actor, though she has indicated in other
interviews that she did not. She denied, though, that there are
any "vulgar or bold" scenes in the movie. "It is a baseless
controversy," she said in the interview from Karachi, the southern
port city where she has been staying since her return from India on
March 9.
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> Her own actions in the movie, she insisted, were in keeping with
what her character demanded. "Acting means freedom of expression,"
she said.
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> Trouble dogged her in India last week, too, as she landed at an
airport in New Delhi on Wednesday, at the invitation of Bhatt, who
also wrote the film's script, only to be told by the immigration
authorities that her visa was valid for arrival only in Mumbai. She
was detained for several hours, then allowed to stay.
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> Meera, who has starred in 56 Pakistani films since her start in
the movie business in 1996, is no stranger to steamy scenes.
Pakistani films, like Indian ones, are rife with suggestive song-and-
dance numbers in which the heroine, sometimes wrapped in a wet sari,
makes provocative, hip-thrusting moves.
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> "Maybe they wanted me to work in the movie wearing a burka," she
said, referring to the head-to-toe cloak worn by some Muslim women.
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> "I have an open mind. I don't have to ask people what to do, what
to wear, what hairstyle to keep."
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> Nevertheless, she and her family, who live in Lahore, say they
have received countless intimidating phone calls in the last month.
She has said she will not return to Lahore unless Pakistan's
president, General Pervez Musharraf, guarantees her safety. "I need
protection," she said. "I am scared to go to Lahore."
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> Officially, it is illegal to show Indian movies in Pakistan's
theaters, but there is a huge black market for them. People watch
them on cassettes or DVDs, and Indian film stars are household
names.
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> The few Pakistani movie theaters that have not already been turned
into shopping malls are pressing for the right to show Bollywood
pictures. Theater owners are threatening to go on strike over the
issue.
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> Some Pakistanis have expressed surprise that the reports about
Meera's film have caused so much criticism. "'Nazar' frankly
contained nothing more licentious than any Pakistani film," Hasan
Zaidi wrote this month in Dawn, an English-language daily.
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