#Omg: Jacqueline Fernandes faces heat from Sikh community!

Comments [ 3 ] By Akash Jaiswal | 16 June 2016 | 8:50pm

Sensous actress Jacqueline Fernandes is quite popular for her onscreen presence and item song performances in B-town. The actress is now all set for the release of her upcoming film 'Dishoom' which also stars John Abraham and Varun Dhawan in the pivotal roles.

The makers recently released the teaser of the first song 'Sau Tarah Ke'. But something in the trailer didn't go well among the audiences.

According to a report on daily portal, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, The Gurdwara Management Committee's general secretary has written a letter to CBFC Chief Pahlaj Nihalani requesting him to pull down the song from the film.

Shocking! Isn't it? The reason lies here.

In the song, Jacqueline was seen wearing a 'Kirpan' (a sacred symbol of the Sikh Community) around her waist which seemed to be inappropriate and dancing. This had hurt the sentiments of the Sikh community and they were got agitated with the actress over this scene.

Little did she know that it would land her in a mess and would also invite a legal trouble for the makers.

Manjinder posted about the entire issue on his social media account saying that, "Objecting strongly to the 'Beadbi' of Kirpan, a pious symbol of Sikhism we asked Sh. Pehlaj Nihlani, the chairperson of Central Board of Film Certification, to instruct the removal of the video of a song titled "ishq ka marz" from the upcoming movie "Dishoom". The song depicts a semi-clad actress, Ms. Jacqueline Fernandez, dancing with a Kirpan, one of the five compulsory Kakaars worn by a practising Sikh; dangling in front of her legs and supported by a cloth belt worn around the waist by the actress and thereby made the mockery of the sacredness and respect of the religious symbols of Kirpan." [sic]

"This act is hurting sentiments of Sikhs as we are already numerous complaints in this matter from various Sikh bodies. I request CBFC to instruct director Rohit Dhawan to immediately remove all the trailers/videos of the aforesaid song uploaded at youtube.com or other websites; either delete the song from the movie or re-shoot its video sans the wearing of Kirpan supported by the actress and to instruct the director and cast of the movie to make public apology to the Sikh community for the deliberate insult done to a respectable Sikh religious symbol. If CBFC fails to take appropriate action in this context, DSGMC will be compelled to initiate criminal proceedings against the director and case of the 'Dishoom' as well as against the CBFC", he added further. [sic]

Film's director Rohit Dhawan has now been served with a legal notice regarding the case.

Dishoom will hit the theatres on 29^th July, 2016.

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