The Toronto-based filmmaker Leena Manimekalai has landed herself in controversy since the poster of her new documentary film ‘Kaali’ has been out that shows a woman dressed as the Hindu goddess smoking a cigarette.
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Today Kathua based Hindu groups approached SSP to register an FIR against her for deliberately hurting their religious sentiments.
Kaali was first screened during Rhythms of Canada, a week-long festival celebrating multiculturalism, at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto last weekend.
Manimekalai, who was born in Madurai in Tamil Nadu and is currently based in Toranto, said she will continue to use her voice fearlessly till she is alive. “I have nothing to lose. Till the time I live, I wish to live with a voice that speaks what I believe without fear. If the price for that is my life, it can be given,” Manimekalai wrote in a Twitter post in Tamil in response to the controversy.
The Hindu groups across the country are outraged over this controversial depiction of their most revered godess and have called for a complete boycott of such filmmakers who repeatedly attack hindu god and goddess in their creations.
