{"id":4840,"date":"2004-12-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/12\/01\/2004-12-01-uk-tv-soap-criticized-by-hindus\/"},"modified":"2004-12-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T12:00:00","slug":"2004-12-01-uk-tv-soap-criticized-by-hindus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/12\/01\/2004-12-01-uk-tv-soap-criticized-by-hindus\/","title":{"rendered":"UK TV Soap Criticized by Hindus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/4059453.stm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>LONDON, ENGLAND, December 1, 2004: Hindu leaders have rejected an apology from Coronation Street (click <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/page.asp?partid=91\">here<\/a> for plot summaries) after a scene showed a Hindu statue used as a weapon. Viewers saw Maya threaten Sunita with a statue of Hindu God Lord Ganesh as part of a long running plot line. ITV apologized for any offence caused but said it was clear &#8220;Maya&#8217;s actions were that of a deranged woman.&#8221; Ramesh Kallidai, secretary of The Hindu Forum of Britain said: &#8220;The apology is not unconditional, it makes a justification for the behavior.&#8221; He added: &#8220;This is not acceptable to us.&#8221; The scene showed Maya ordering a cowering Sunita to be submissive or her husband would come home to find Sunita had been &#8220;beaten to death by Ganesh, the God of good fortune.&#8221; The ITV statement said it was clear Maya &#8220;had no regard for anyone or anything at the moment that the line was said and any right-minded individual would believe her actions to be abhorrent.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nMr. Kallidai said ITV had not apologized to his organisation directly. &#8220;We have had lots of calls from agitated Hindus &#8211; do you think they would have filmed a scene where a mentally ill person is shown throwing a Koran on the floor?&#8221; he said. &#8220;The media should be as responsible as it is creative,&#8221; he added. The Forum had also sought an assurance that it would be consulted before including any use of Hindu icons that may cause hurt or anger in the community. &#8220;We are here to give input to the media, please speak to us if you are thinking of showing anything insensitive,&#8221; said Mr. Kallidai. The Hindu Forum of Britain is the largest umbrella body for British Hindus, with more than 230 member organizations from across the UK.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceLONDON, ENGLAND, December 1, 2004: Hindu leaders have rejected an apology from Coronation Street (click here for plot summaries) after,&#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-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","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=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}