Bajrang Dal activists at it again: Attack Delhi theatre, tear PK posters

A day after disrupting the screening of Aamir Khan starrer PK in Ahmedabad and Bhopal, a group of Bajrang Dal activists today attacked a theatre screening the film in Delhi and defaced posters of the film. The attack reportedly took place at the Delite theatre in Central Delhi which is screening the film.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the police had detained any of the miscreants involved in the attack on the theatre. [caption id=“attachment_2022501” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. PTI image[/caption] At least 20 members of the right-wing organisation targeted City Gold and Shiv theatres on Ashram Road in Ahmedabad on Monday morning and smashed ticket windows and tore off posters of the film. The Bajrang Dal and VHP have given a 24-hour ultimatum to the film’s producers to remove “anti-Hindu” scenes. The VHP also said on Monday that PK has several scenes that hurt religious sentiments of Hindus and has written to the information and broadcasting ministry, demanding a curb on such movies and “changing the character of the censor board”. The film PK makes fun of the fanaticism that surrounds all religions in India. Aamir Khan is an alien who is looking for god so that he can ask for a ‘remote’ he needs to go back to his own planet. However after visiting many temples, churches and mosques he realises that it does not help. The film through this story makes a mockery of people’s blind belief in organised religion and self-styled godmen. For now there’s no sign that it will dent the film’s popularity. As Firstpost editor Sandipan Sharma pointed out in his piece : PK has already earned Rs 200-crore; it may go on to earn a few more. Ideally, cheerleaders of the ‘ban PK’ band should have shut up after realising that millions of people— and most of them, I dare say, Hindus— have watched the film and have found nothing wrong with it. Some of them, I am sure, may have even gone to a temple the very next morning to perform the exact rituals that Hirani proscribes.