Daijiworld Media Network - Entertainment

Mumbai, Jan 19: Dismissing yet another PIL filed against Aamir Khan's latest release, Justices G Rohini and R S Endlaw, said that, "the present petition is an instance of a growing tendency in the country of intolerance and which tendency has to be nipped in the bud and unless done so, is likely to spread like wild fire and which the country can ill-afford."

They said that an artist was well within his rights in portraying the realities of our society however unsavoury they may be just as the audience had the right to not watch a movie that didn't agree with their sensibilities. The court also felt that the PILs that they have been inundated with prove the growing intolerance among the populace for the slightest word against their beliefs or thoughts and this the court felt was dangerous. The unanimous sentiment of intolerance, was one that the bench felt needed to be 'nipped in the bud' before it plagued the entire like an incurable epidemic.

The movie in itself has gone to break many previous records and earned a whooping Rs 600 crores and counting. The court said the movie could not be held guilty for showing the true reality of our existing world, and that the offence taken by the staunch religion followers it felt was nothing more than a misunderstanding. The judges said," We are unable to hold the film or any sequence thereof being contemptuous of the essential tenets and beliefs of Hindu religion or as promoting communal attitude. The said sequences have to be necessarily shown to illustrate the social evil prevalent,"

While the court agreed that most of the satire had been on the Hindu religion, it felt that instead of taking offence lessons could be learnt on what vices to eradicate from our society.