: Orchestrated campaigns: LAAL signal to sanity? #WorldNEWSAll The campaigns are so vicious and coordinated that it is evident that these are being done at someone or some organisation’s behest. These

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Orchestrated campaigns: LAAL signal to sanity? #WorldNEWSAll
The campaigns are so vicious and coordinated that it is evident that these are being done at someone or some organisation’s behest.
These days a well orchestrated and widespread campaign is being carried out asking people not to watch Aamir Khan’s upcoming film Laal Singh Chaddha. Scores of videos are being forwarded with the same message that the film should be boycotted without even been told what the film is all about.
However all such videos refer to a previous film of Aamir Khan, released in 2014, called ‘PK’ where the hero played by Aamir Khan is seen making fun of Hindu gods and goddesses. Some of the scenes were certainly in bad taste but what is significant is that there was hardly any protest against such scenes in the year of its release or even later.
For instance his film on successful female wrestlers from Haryana, Dangal, was released in 2016 but there were no calls for any boycott then.
This time around there are calls not just for the boycott of the film in theaters but also of the TV channel which is promoting the film. Not just that, there is a call to boycott the popular television show Amitabh Bachchan’s Kaun Banega Crorepati because it would have Aamir Khan as a special guest one of these days.
The campaigns are so vicious and coordinated that it is evident that these are being done at someone or some organisation’s behest. It would be interesting to wait and watch for the response at the box office once the film gets released in theaters.
So what has changed since 2014 when ‘PK’ was released and now. Obviously a lot of water has flown down the Ganga and our society has undergone a tectonic shift.
Mohammad Zubair
The same kind of mentality was seen in the prolonged arrest of the Alt News Co-founder Mohammad Zubair who was hauled up for a tweet based on a film scene released in 1983 called “Kissi se na kehna”. Of course there was no protest at that time or even much later.
It was four years ago in 2018 that Zubair tweeted a still from the film and even then there was no protest. However a man, who remains unidentified, filed a complaint a few months ago stating that his sentiments were hurt and action should be taken against Zubair not the film maker!
On the basis of that complaint Zubair, who runs a site where fake news is busted, was put behind bars for 27 days till the Supreme Court intervened. Six other cases which were slapped on him to keep him in jail were clubbed together by the court.
While the current campaign against “Laal Singh Chaddha” is for boycotting the film, another campaign was launched a few months ago in favour of a film Kashmir Files.

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