Matters are further complicated by the fact that this occurs in the context of the film depicting a friendship between a Hindu woman and a Muslim man.Īlso read: Four Decades of Milking a Deity in Ayodhya Because some delicate ‘upper’ caste Hindu vegetarian sensibilities have been injured by the mere idea that Rama could be spoken of as eating meat, and that too at the time when the ‘ pranpratishtha’ (life establishment) ritual around the idol of Ram in the new temple at Ayodhya is about to take place. This exchange has Hindu zealots up in arms. Her friend, a Muslim man (Farhan, played by Jai), convinces her that there is nothing necessarily wrong in cooking meat by citing a verse from Valmiki’s Ramayan, in Sanskrit, which features Ram and Lakshman hunting animals and cooking meat to assuage their hunger. There, she faces the dilemma of having to cook meat dishes. She enrols secretly (so as to avoid the disapproval of her strict vegetarian father, also a temple cook) in a hotel management course to learn how to cook gourmet food. This time it’s over the recent Tamil film Annapoorani, starring the actors Nayanthara, Jai and Sathyaraj, directed by Nilesh Krishnaa.Ī Brahmin girl (Annapoorani, played by Nayanthara) dreams of being a chef. Another needless controversy over culture and food, provoked, as usual, by Hindutva hot-heads has broken out.
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