The following statement was issued by Ajay Shah, Convenor,
American Hindus Against Defamation, in response to the
decision by Executive Producer of Eyes Wide Shut to edit
out the Bhagwad Gita shloka from the UK and other foreign
distribution of the movie.
American Hindus Against Defamation (AHAD) is pleased to
hear that the executive producer of the movie, based in UK
has decided take note of the protest by AHAD and its
sister organizations in UK and around the world and edit
out the Hindu shloka (verse ) from the movie Eyes Wide
Shut.
AHAD demands that the future distribution of the movie,
through cable video etc. also do not carry this verse.
AHAD congratulates the Hindu community for coming together
to protest the misuse of Shree Bhagwad Gita. Within just a
week of launching the protest, over 700 people signed the
online protest (http://www.hindunet.org/ahad/eyes), and in
the same week, during the Dharma Sansad (gathering of
Hindu religious heads in USA) held in Austin, TX, an
overwhelming majority of 500 Hindus present protested the
use of shloka in this movie.
AHAD also thanks its sister organizations in UK (VHP,
Temple Council, HSS etc), India, the Caribbean countries,
etc. who rallied the Hindus around the world to protest
the inclusion of this verse. This was indeed a global
protest.
AHAD thanks the widow of Mr. Kubrick Ms. Christiane
Kubrick and the Executive Producer of the movie Jan Varlan
for their role in removing the offending placement of the
verse from the movie.
This is the fourth incident that AHAD coalition has
successfully taken up. AHAD, in past protested the
distortion of Lord Krishna's picture on Aerosmith's
Nine Lives cover, inclusion of Hindu deities at the
Karma Club in Chicago, and improper portrayal of Hindu
deities in Universal Studio's Xena : Warrior Princess
show.
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