{"id":261,"date":"2000-11-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/28\/2000-11-28-amitabh-bachchan-in-hot-water-over-gayatri-mantra-with-shoes\/"},"modified":"2000-11-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-11-28T12:00:00","slug":"2000-11-28-amitabh-bachchan-in-hot-water-over-gayatri-mantra-with-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/28\/2000-11-28-amitabh-bachchan-in-hot-water-over-gayatri-mantra-with-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Amitabh Bachchan in Hot Water Over Gayatri Mantra with Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hindustan Times, November 27, 2000<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>VARANASI, INDIA: Vedic scholars in Varanasi have taken exception to a scene in the film &#8220;Mohabbatein&#8221; by Yash Chopra, now under production, in which Amitabh Bachchan recites the sacred Gayatri Mantra with his shoes on. Just last year another movie production company (&#8220;Water&#8221;) was chased out of Varanasi for complaints over insults to Hinduism. Dr. Kaushal Kishore Mishra, who led the protest against &#8220;Water&#8221; said a permanent committee will be formed to review all films that might insult Hinduism. Bachchan denied the accusations, telling Press Trust of India, &#8220;I am a deeply religious person and cannot even dream of any kind of disrespect to religious sentiments.&#8221; Producer Chopra said the criticism was &#8220;absolutely incorrect, unjust, erroneous and uncalled for.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hindustan Times, November 27, 2000 VARANASI, INDIA: Vedic scholars in Varanasi have taken exception to a scene in the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}