In Haryana, Sikhs protested against the movie at several places, including Sirsa, Karnal, Yamunanagar and Kurukshetra.Īlso read| Nanak Shah Fakir: Everything you want to know about the Guru Nanak Dev film Protest against the movie was also staged at Ferozepur. There were also reports of protests by Sikhs in Jalandhar where a group burnt an effigy of the film’s producer Harinder Sikka. Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) run local education institutes remained closed today to protest against the movie. The Takht had imposed a ban on the release of Nanak Shah Fakir after it contended that showing Sikh gurus in living form cannot be permitted. Highly recommended.The protest is not for harassing anybody, they said. It's a shame really as the film actually serves a very good purpose in my view. Apparently to placate the sensitivities of the devout, and yet, ironically, the film has been mired in controversy in India regardless. But this can be understood by considering that the makers of this film treated the subject very carefully and in a reverent manner. In my view, even though it's a biography and we all know how it is going to end, certain point of conflict and thus a climax could have been created to make the story more interesting to the broader audience. The story line is essentially a string of parables - almost all of which are well known to any Sikh but would be instructive to anyone new to this topic. The music is perhaps the best aspect of this film. The sets, costumes and locations are well done. Guru Nanak's image is created through CGI, but all other characters are played live by actors. The film is essentially a straight line biography. The producer of this film has made a remarkable effort to create a film of high technical standards to address this. Guru Nanak is not very well understood outside the Sikhs themselves and northern India. It is too bad that some religious sensitivities in India have kept this film from wide circulation so far. I'm not changing my rating officially, but I would consider it a 7 at this point. I wish for everyone's sake that the producers find a way to make the original version available - at least outside India. I was lucky to have watched it during its initial release in 2015. The film has been significantly harmed by this editing. ***UPDATE: The film was re-released after significant editing to placate some orthodox sensitivities in India.
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