In the most recent poster for the movie Masoom Sawaal, Lord Krishna is depicted on a sanitary napkin. Following a complaint that the movie’s poster offends religious sensibilities by depicting a picture of Lord Krishna on a sanitary pad, police have booked the director and other members of the production crew, according to officials on Sunday. Amit Rathore, the president of the Hindu Rashtra Navnirman Sena, filed the complaint, according to a senior police official in this city, and a police report was filed against director Santosh Upadhyay, his company, and the entire Hindi film team on Sunday.
Swatantra Singh, a Sahibabad Circle officer, stated that the FIR was filed by section 295 of the Indian Penal Code (injuring or defiling places of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class). Menstruation awareness is a goal of the film. The complainant has claimed the film producer has included a picture of Lord Krishna on sanitary pads on a poster.
According to him, this has offended the Santana Dharma followers’ religious sensibilities and may cause riots in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the nation.
In the FIR, he said that the film producer and his team tried to sow racial division in the nation in a very deliberate manner. According to Rathore, members of the Hindu Rashtra Navnirman Sena would demonstrate outside the two cinemas in Sahibabad and Ghaziabad where the film is being shown.
Speaking of it, Director Santosh Upadhyay shares, “We have been receiving all sorts of threats from different communities asking to change the poster saying it shows Deity on a pad. But we don’t have any such intention to hurt anybody’s sentiments. But we are receiving good responses from audiences and I’m very grateful for the same. If one watches the film, then one will realize how relevant the poster is. But we are getting love from audiences so we are satisfied with it.”
Actor Ekavali Khanna, who plays a lawyer in the film, says, “The sole purpose of it was to break the taboo and change the narrative. In this generation, there is no room for superstitions and ill practices that are forcefully imposed on women unnecessarily.”
