Vishwaroopam- Something behind the Protestors?

Till date we have come accross many protests from various people against Kamal Hasan movies. Virumandi,Mumbai Xpress, Hey Ram,Unnai Pol Oruvan,Manmadhan Ambu,Pammal K Sambandham, Vasool Raja MBBS, Avvai Shanmugi, Dhasavatharam.. These all I Know, but there might be many which I may not know.

The latest addition is Vishwaroopam. There were 2 Protests basically against this movie

1. Vishwaroopam - Sanskrit Title - Hindu Makkal Katchi
2. Portraying Muslims as Terrorists - Muslim Organizations( 24 in total as of date including few polictical parties)

The first one went un-noticed because, if Titles are non-Tamil, the entertainment tax exemption , which Kamal Hasan is least bothered.

The second one became a big issue , asking for the ban of the movie screening by few Protesting groups from a religion. Their statement is - Their community is being shown as terrorists in the movie.

I had a strong belief that Kamal Hasan never portays anything worng about a particular community, nor any thing fictious about any community. This is absolutely right , when I watched the movie.

What bothers these protestors, if the Afghan militants are shown as muslims in the movie( which is real fact, the entire world knows it). They invited themselves into the issue, and made other common Tamil muslim feel bad and embarassed. India is a country where Muslims were Presidents of the country( the top most level of Indian constitution), Vice presidents, Cabinet Ministers, Captains in various sports, many top level posts in Defence, Police  and other civil departments. There are brotherly relations between Other religion people and Muslims in most parts of the state. By raising this issue, it is making an embarassing situation for those Muslims,who are friendly with other religions.

One main fact these protestors have to think about is - How does showing Talibans as militants ( a real fact) , in a Tamil movie will impact the respect of Tamil muslims?

Are people so mad to believe that all people of that community are Militants? And every person of that community does a JIHAD? The answer is absolutely a big "NO". People are not mad to the core to show hatered on a person of community , just because some person , somewhere in the world of that community is doing a bad thing.

Do the protestors think that all people from thier community are being seen as Militants by the society here because of the movies? Its is "No" defenitely.The way they are protesting asking for a ban, is making people think in that way. The protests are really degrading the community. It is creating a bad impact on thier community atleast 1000 times than the movie can create, if at all. Blindly protesting is of no use, without any baseless statements. Afghans should be shown as Muslims only, since it is the fact. And it will never create any harm to any people following that community in India, especially Tamilnadu. It is clearly indicating that , beyond the reason they are telling out, there is some kind of other motivations behind these protests. No one can stop an Artist from delivering his performances on screen. The protests have degraded the respect of the community. It is better to stop it and support the release of the film atleast now.


First and foremost, look Cinema as Cinema and not real life. And more over, dont mix up politics with every cinema. Vishwaroopam is a next level Indian cinema and encouragement is needed for the same, and not selfish,political based protests.

Is our Democracy still existing? Are we letting every one to express thier views , I really feel that Cinema Industry is the most minority in the country, who is deprived of all kinds of freedom. If this situation continues, we will never be able to compete with World Cinema. I dont understand why everyone asks for a ban against a particular movie, every time.

Please watch movies for entertainment. Never use them for your baseless protests.

Really one has to admire the guts of Kamal Hasan to come up with a movie , on Global terrorism , without showing any false facts and not using any scenes which can hurt the sentiments of any community. His efforts have to be applauded and never be asked for a ban from showing his masterpiece in theatres. Are they realising how much the theatres and film industry is losing because of these protests? I believe Kamal Hasan has every right to sue the protestors for causing losses to the movie screening and ask for a compensation, if at all we are living in a Secular democratic country. Government should support this and not support senselss protests asking for a ban. It was a funny judgement today from the Madras High Court, saying that Kamal should discuss with the protestors and solve this issue, besides they have watched the movie, which is being cleared by Censor board, who had a Muslim member in it. If he has to solve by having discussion with the protestors, then what is use of our Judicial system?

Is the government is supporting the protestors just because of the vote banks? This question also arises for everyone who looks at all these incendents happing against "VISHWAROOPAM"

Final say, Vishwaroopam is a movie based on US-Taliban war and it has nothing to do with the Tamil Muslims or Muslim community. What ever we had read in news about the 2002 war had been only shown in the movie, which is a well known fact for the world.