‘Zero’ faces flak

A senior Congress leader on Tuesday demanded police action against the director-producers of the upcoming Bollywood film Zero for certain objectionable scenes which have “hurt sentiments of the Sikh community.”

Former legislator and Mumbai unit Vice-President Charan Singh Sapra said he has written to the police to summon the director and producers Red Chillies Entertaiment and Colour Yellow Productions under Indian Penal Code Sec. 295(A).

This is because lead actor Shah Rukh Khan is depicted in the poster in his undergarments wearing the Sikh religious symbol gatra kirpan(mini-dagger). “In Sikhism, the gatra kirpan has its own sanctity and cannot be worn by anybody except an amritdhari [baptised] Sikh. This has hurt the religious sentiments of Sikhs all over and I have received many complaints in this regard,” said Sapra.