Mira Nair’s web series A Suitable Boy is one of the projects that has attracted unwanted attention. A politician claimed that the series hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus by depicting the lead character, a Hindu girl, passionately kissing a Muslim boy against the backdrop of a temple.
Akshay Kumar’s film Laxmmi Bomb was criticised for including derogatory remarks about Goddess Lakshmi. The makers had to ultimately remove the word ‘bomb’ from the name. Bhumi Pednekar’s film Durgamati was initially named Durgavati but the makers changed the name following the Laxxmi Bomb trolls. The Ajay Devgn starrer Singham attracted a controversy over portraying a Hindu sadhu in a negative light, though many cult sadhus are currently serving jail terms in the country.
The recent advertisements for Tata’s Tanishq came under fire too – one was accused of promoting ‘love jihad’ while another, on ‘no-firecracker Diwali’, offended a representative of a political…