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              Don't get Akshay to inaugurate IFFI: Hindu 
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            Tuesday October 16, 2012 08:27:15 AM, 
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              Panaji: Bollywood 
              actor Akshay Kumar should not be invited to inaugurate the 43rd 
              International Film festival of India (IFFI), because he has 
              denigrated Hindu deities in his latest film "Oh My God", a 
              right-wing Hindu group said Monday.
 "Akshay Kumar who is acting as an incarnation of Bhagvan Shri 
              Krishna, is shown in Western attire. In place of Sudarshan Shakra, 
              Bhagvan Shree Krishna is shown rotating a key chain in the 
              finger," Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) convenor Manoj Solanki has 
              said in his petition handed over Monday to the chief minister's 
              office (CMO).
 
 Solanki has also said that the screening of the film "Oh My God" 
              should be banned in Goa because it hurt religious sentiments and 
              that inaugurating IFFI at the hands of the actor would amount to 
              "rubbing salts on the wounds of Hindus in this secular state".
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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