Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Charlie Chaplin’s statue can’t be erected in India because he was Christian

http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=4123

[Religious Intelligence] 18 Mar 2009--Film and theatre artistes will hold a protest in the southern state of Karnataka on March 20 against Hindu nationalists’ opposition to erection of a statue of master comedian Charlie Chaplin for a film because he was a Christian.

The artistes and software professionals are planning to gather on Friday in Bangalore, Karnataka’s capital and India’s IT hub, to register their protest, reported The Times of India daily.

Filmmaker Hemanth Hegde was planning to erect a 67-foot statue of Chaplin at the Maravanthe beach, for his film “House Full”. The statue, if built, could possibly find mention in the Guinness Book of World Records and become a tourist attraction, but a group of unidentified people, suspected to be Hindu nationalists, raised objections on it on March 15 on the ground that a Christian’s statue would not be allowed to come up there because there was a temple near the spot.

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