African group protests against Rimi Sen
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| Kyunki main jhooth nahin bolti: Rimi Sen |
She reportedly made a racist statement in a recent interview
Upala KBR
upala@mid-day.com
Last week, when Rimi Sen said in an interview on Golmaal that, "Rohit Shetty is amazing as a director. He can make even a black African look pretty," little did she realise she would be stirring a hornet's nest. The comment was published by the desi Bollywood website glamsham.com (and later removed) and was also published by an automated news feed on Yahoo News. Golmaal, is currently number 8 in the UK charts and some groups are contemplating calling for a boycott in UK cinemas over Sen's racist comments.
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When we called Rimi for her take on the controversy, the actress naturally feigned ignorance. She says, "I have been misquoted. I can't speak to you as I am shooting." As for remembering what she had actually said, the actress says, "I don't remember any such statement."
Golmaal, which has been produced by Ashtavinayak, might bear the brunt with its screenings being stopped in UK theatres. Says Denis Selarka from Ashtavinayak, "Our UK distributor is Venus. I haven't heard anything from them as yet about Golmaal being banned there. I think Rimi's comments have been misinterpreted. There was no deliberate effort to cause any hurt to any race or religion."
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But Ligali, a non-profit British African voluntary organisation in the UK, is not taking the situation lightly. In a statement on their website, ligali.org, they said that they found her statement unacceptable and urged Asians to take action against her and her film Golmaal.
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