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A popular Indian film, which traces the journey of a young girl who aspires to become the best chef in India, was removed on Thursday January 11 from the Netflix platform after a campaign by Hindu nationalists. These stigmatize the scenes which show the consumption of meat as well as a romance between the Hindu heroine and a young Muslim man.
Annapoorani: The Goddess of Food, which was the second most-watched film on the Netflix platform in India the day before its withdrawal, describes the difficult journey of the daughter of a Hindu priest who dreams of becoming the best chef cook from India and who faces challenges due to her upbringing within Hinduism. She thus abandons the strict vegetarianism in which she was raised, while upper caste Hindus abstain from consuming meat.
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A Muslim classmate helps him navigate the unforgiving world of his culinary school, and the two young people fall in love, coming face to face with one of the most enduring taboos in Indian society. , interfaith marriages being unthinkable for traditionalists. Last week, an activist who felt offended by the script filed a complaint with police, saying the film promoted "love jihad," a derogatory phrase coined by Hindu nationalists who blame Muslim men for to marry Hindu women and force them to convert to Islam.
Ramesh Solanki, who filed the complaint, said on X (formerly Twitter) that Netflix and co-producer Zee Studios had "deliberately produced this film... to hurt the sentiments of Hindus." He asked the police to initiate action against the main actors of the film. A campaign calling for a boycott of the film and its immediate removal from Netflix was dominant on social media for several days. The withdrawal of the film Annapoorani from Netflix in India, a few weeks after the premiere, aroused the jubilation of its detractors. Shriraj Nair, spokesperson for a Hindu activist group which criticized the film, said its authors had “realized their fault”. “We have never interfered with the creative freedom of a film, but denigration and mocking of Hindus will never be tolerated,” he wrote on X.
India has a long history of film censorship, but the film industry has gradually avoided content that might offend the religious sensitivities of Hindus whose religion is the majority in the country since Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in power in 2014. In December, the Washington Post reported that Netflix and the Amazon Prime platform had ruled out several projects in India so as not to offend the feelings of Hindus in this officially secular country. Anurag Kashyap, a leading director, had told the newspaper that one of his adaptations was canceled by Netflix in 2021 as part of an “invisible censorship” campaign.
