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January 6, 2006

India: Bollywood Movie to Whitewash Islam

The Daily Times article explains Director Mahesh Bhatt, "is known for tackling bold scripts, often inspired by Hollywood". As if Hollywood itself was prone to tackling bold scripts, as if portraying Islam as "the Religion of Piece" was nothing but the official PC doctrine: Bollywood to showcase Islam in movie on London bombings

Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt will soon start shooting a film about the July suicide bombings in London that left 56 people dead in a bid to show Islam as a religion of peace.

Titled "Suicide Bomber", the Hindi movie will star Bhatt's son Rahul in the role of a young Asian Muslim planning to trigger the blasts in London. "The movie is inspired by the London bombings and my son will make his film debut by playing the key role of the suicide bomber who is of Asian origin," Bhatt told AFP on Wednesday. He said the shooting had a 50 million rupee ($1.1 million) budget and will start in June, adding "I am aiming for a December 2006 release."[...]

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Posted by Ruy Diaz at January 6, 2006 3:53 PM

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