I am a big
fan of Aamir Khan. Most of the time when he do movie he come up with a entirely
new Idea. He changes himself totally as his movie demands. Recently his new
movie PK released. And like the other time his fans become crazy to watch the
movie. But mixed reactions are coming. Mixed in two ways, about the quality of
the movie and second is the topic of the movie. It was expected that as the
topic is religion controversy will come.
Let’s talk
some points about the situation.
About the
movie I can say it could be an extremely unique and superb movie if “O My God”
was not released. The concept is similar to that but the presentation is
different. OMG showed the religious stupidity from an atheist point of view but
PK showed from a believer’s point of view more precisely from a zero knowledge
person’s view. In this sense OMG was arguing with religious leader but PK is
just asking question about religious stupidity. In spite of the commonness of
the two movies PK is still an excellent movie realized in Bollywood.
Coming to
the second point. The religious controversy. It is very much expected in India.
Here people just need anything to talk about anything to agitate about and
anything to show their power. Especially when it is religion you can be sure
there will be protest even when people don’t understand what is the point.
In this movie there was no vulgar thing which
can be excluded form the movie. Still people are demanding ban on PK. This only
happen when your belief or faith or base of your religion is so poor. PK just
raised some question about religion and GOD. Even it didn’t claim that GOD doesn’t
exist which was claimed in OMG. If you have answer why will you be worried
about? Religious people think that faith of GOD will decrease due to this movie
or if somebody raise question. Its totally funny and illogical thinking. If
some theory or idea really have base or logic it will sustain forever by the
power of its own strong reasoning, Just a question will not nullify it. The
reverse is true if some question have answer the answer become stronger and
stronger after each time it is answered. If religious beliefs and customs are
true then why they fear of questioning? Then shall we come to the conclusion
that PK is right? They are based on very weak reasoning and illogical even to
answer to a brainless (not preoccupied with thoughts like PK) person?
No matter how many time people raise the
question about the first law of Newton it will remain same and people will not
withdraw their faith on it. Even after 1000 time questioning if it is proved
wrong the law will change. No one will still claim that Newton’s law is
correct. We know Einstein is a Star in Science field. But some days before
people raised question on his relativity theory by an experiment. The whole
science world welcomed the question. No one told that why did you do that
experiment? You have bad intention to show Einstein down. We shall burn your
home. We shall attack the office from where the grant of the project was provided,
or we shall destroy the printing machine from where this news was printed.
Everybody accepted this experiment. Unfortunately the experiment was proven
wrong but that is different story.
But the case
of religion is different. You raise a question (no need to prove them wrong)
and you are gone. You prove them wrong, even if they have no supporting logic
in their favor they will still believe whatever they used to believe. Neither
they will take a step to ask the question to themselves and start finding the
answer.
The only
answer religious people have to any religious question is to delete the
question. And they prove that all questions are answered. Very good idea. If there is no question left it proves that
all questions are answered !!!
Some claver people claim that religion is a
lifestyle. So attacking or raising question against religion is like insulting
them. No one have right to insult somebody’s religious belief. This is also a
very weak argument. Actually no nonreligious people is needed to insult the
religious people. Religious peoples are insulting themselves day in and day
out, all the moment.
Didn’t get?
Let me give an example.
Most of the time the rules and rituals are so
different from each other. So if you practice one strictly you will
automatically hate others or insult others. Being a religious person you have
no other choice than insulting others (if you follow all conducts of that
particular religion).
A Muslim believe that idol worshiping is wrong. But Hindus
think that it is ok as long as you take the idol just to imagine GOD (I heard
this argument many times). Now if a Muslim really loves or believe in his/her
religion can he/she praise Hindus? Certainly they will hate or/and criticize Hinduism
(openly or secretly).
A Hindu person thinks that eating Cow is sin. But in Muslim/Christian
religion eating halal Cow meat is allowed. Now can a Hindu person love Muslim
in this point? They are bound to criticize/attack /insult Islam/Christians if
they are true Hindus at least on this point.
These are just two examples which shows that the seed
of hate is hidden nowhere other than inside the religion itself.
Now the question is when one religion ask question
about others its not a problem for the religious people. In this case either
they will ignore the question or will spread a false religious brotherhood
among religion to save each other. And just when a third party being
nonreligious ask the same question (remember PK was alien, he had no religion)
it become insulting to the religious leader.
It is really
unfortunate that a great and diverse country like India, where from very
ancient times different opinion used to come have lost the tolerance. Remember
the Buddhists and Jains. They don’t even believe in Creator/GOD. Still they are welcomed and nourished/
practiced by millions of Indians.
Question never threats the answer if there is answer.
It is the ignorance of the question which threats the existence of answer. So I
hope people will understand a single movie will not even make a scratch on
their religion if they are true. Do not attack on any thoughts because
people/property dies after attack but thoughts never die they become stronger
and stronger after every attack.
Come out of Religious Stupidity you will find the
truth.
