Divya
3. The Family Man
The political party RSS had raised objections about a few dialogues in the series in relation to the Indian government’s action of abrogating Article 370 in which it granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
4. Leila
The Netflix series Leila was called ‘anti Hindu’ for depicting the dystopian future of Aryavarta where purity of blood is enforced.
Ramesh N Solanki, a Hindu activist and member of Shiv Sena’s IT Cell, filed a complaint against US-based digital media platform Netflix for defaming Hindus. A part of Solanki’s complaint against several web series on the platform read, “Aryavrat will be a land of bigots, casteists, Muslim-hating, women-hating patriarchal sect. The term ‘Aryavrat’ is an undertone to suggest that the Hindu Rashtra is/will be of this kind. The SC’s earlier verdict that was recently upheld said that Hindu is a way of life. And to suggest that the way of life will be like a radical cult, is demeaning and hurts our religious sentiments.”
5. Sacred Games
Ramesh N Solanki had an issue with yet another Indian web series as he wrote a complaint against Sacred Games. He wrote, “Aham Brahmasami, a Vedic chant and a sacred hymn has been framed as a war cry. People belonging to a cult greet each other with this hymn, suggesting that the hymn radicalises people to indulge in war against humanity. The film generalises a revered concept of Guruji in the Bharatiya school of thoughts. The agenda is to demean the Guru-Shishya parampara with overtly sexual gestures.”
The complaint continued, “One of our country’s social reformer is fondly called Guruji and this series seems to attack the revered person. To show the ruling dispensation is influenced by Guruji is to show that the Government of India is influenced by RSS and RSS’ Guruji will go for a nuclear war. That the RSS vide Guruji will use Muslims to spread terror. In order to avoid controversy the producer suggested that the character is based on Rajneesh. Not the plot of the series but its agenda is a sinister plot.”
