Films that criticize religion are often a subject of controversy.
Amazon Prime recently found itself in crosshairs as several FIRs were filed by UP Police against its webseries Tandav for ‘promoting religious enmity’ and allegedly hurting Hindu sentiments.
Allahabad High Court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Aparna Purohit, content head of Amazon India Originals, in an extremely worrying judgement.
The judge observed: “Western filmmakers have refrained from ridiculing Lord Jesus or the Prophet, but Hindi filmmakers have done this repeatedly and are still doing this most unabashedly with Hindu Gods and Goddesses.”
Is that claim true? Western filmmakers have dared to put religion in the spotlight more often than their Indian counterparts and perhaps no other religion than Christian has been so mercilessly and consistently mocked by the Western arts and scholar fraternity.
Here is a list of movies (not in any order) from the West that dared to chastise religion:
Technically not from the West, but it gained global recognition when it was nominated for the Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category. This bleak Russian drama is about a family fighting against all odds as the nexus of politics and religion tries to browbeat them into submission.
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