Mumbai: One of the mentors of the current BJP leadership, Lal Krishna Advani has praised Aamir Khan and Raj Kumar Hirani's satirical comedy film 'PK' describing it as a "wonderful and courageous film".
Advani's remark comes in the wake of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal activists vandalizing cinema theatres exhibiting the movie 'PK' and holding nationwide protests.
A press release issued by the film producers quotes Advani as saying: “Hearty greetings to Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra for a wonderful and courageous film that they have produced in the shape of PK.
"We are fortunate to have been born in a vast and variegated country like India. This however casts on all patriots a duty to ensure that nothing weakens the unity of the country- neither caste nor community nor language nor region, and certainly not religion.
"In fact I believe that religiosity is for our nation an inexhaustible source of spiritualism, and so of ethical conduct. Those who run down religion, any religion, are doing a great disservice to the country and to its unity.
"It is this cardinal lesson that emerges clearly out of this recently released film PK which has excellent performances by the protagonist Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma and Boman Irani”, said Advani.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad and several Hindu saints have called for a ban on the exhibition of this film, which, they say, lampoons revered Hindu gods and the Hindu way of life.
