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Denigration of Hindu deities stopped on 'Set Max'

March 20, 2009

Falgun Krushna Navmi

Hindus must express gratitude at the feet of God for this success

Ratnagiri: ‘Indian Premier League (IPL)’ will be holding cricket matches in the month of May which are going to be live telecast on ‘Set Max’ entertainment channel. There was an advertisement denigrating Hindu deities shown on this channel in this regard. Shri. Sanjay Joshi, a member of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) called up the channel’s office and Shri. Shivaji Vatkar, district-coordinator of HJS for Mumbai, Thane and Raigad wrote a letter to protest against the advertisement following which, the telecast of the advertisement was withdrawn.  

In the issue of ‘Dainik Sanatan Prabhat (DSP)’ dated 17th March, news was published with the heading ‘IPL and Set Max make mockery of Hindu deities’. Thereafter, Shri. Sanjay Joshi called up an official of ‘Set Max’ channel at his office. The conversation that took place between the two is given below.

Shri. Joshi: Namaskar! An advertisement is being shown on your channel about IPL tournaments. In this advertisement, Andrew Symonds, an Australian cricketer has been shown sitting in a temple in a house and a woman has been showing as performing his ‘puja’. It is insulting to show a human sitting in temple and is being worshipped. This has hurt our religious sentiments. Therefore, the telecast of this advertisement needs to be stopped immediately.

Officer: It was not our intention to hurt anyone’s religious sentiments. (It’s a typical answer of an officer of every TV channel – Editor).

Shri. Joshi: If you do not stop showing this advertisement, we will appeal to the cable operators to boycott ‘Set Max’ channel and nobody would see your channel.

Officer: Sir, please do not do this, we shall stop the advertisement.

Shri. Joshi: We will stage demonstrations near your office if the advertisement is shown.

Officer: No need for the same, we shall immediately stop showing this advertisement.

The channel immediately stopped showing the advertisement 

Source: DainiK Sanatan Prabhat

Anti-Hindu IPL and 'Set Max' hurt religious sentiments of Hindus

March 12, 2009

Falgun Krushna Dwitiya

All Hindus should protest against anti-Hindu advertisement of IPL on Set MAX channel. Hindus should force IPL & Set MAX to change the anti-Hindu content of advertisement and they should apologise Hindus for hurting sentiments of Hindus. This advertisement even hurts sentiments of other religions, viz Muslim & Christian.

The television channel 'Set Max' has been showing an advertisement for Indian Premier League (A Cricket League) which is hurting Hindu sentiments. The  advertisement is shown more than 25 to 30 times a day and it shows that a lady is worshipping an idol of Symonds (an Australian cricket player), who is shown in place of an Hindu idol.

The link for the advertisement on youtube videos is: 

Youtube.com

The contact details for Set Max are :

E-Mail: feedback.max@setindia.com

Address : Public Relations Department
MAX
Multi Screen Media Pvt. Ltd.
(Formerly SET India Pvt. Ltd)
3rd Floor, Interface, Building No. 7,
Off Malad Link Road, Malad (W),
Mumbai - 400 064 India

Contact no. Tel : +91 22 6708 1111, Fax : +91 22 66434748.

IPL is run by the BCCI (Board for Control of Cricket in India)

BOARD OF CONTROL FOR CRICKET IN INDIA

Brabourne Stadium
North Stand
Veer Nariman Road
PO Box 11094
Mumbai 400 020
India

Phone : +91 22 2202 5423 / 2285 2602
Fax : +91 22 2285 1361

Email : bcci@vsnl.com

BOARD OF CONTROL FOR CRICKET IN INDIA

2nd floor, Cricket Centre,
Wankhede Stadium,
'D' Road,
Mumbai- 400020

Phone : +91 22 22898800
Fax : +91 22 22898801
Email : info@bcci.tv

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bhagavaan daas, Canada
12 Mar 2009, 21:21
IPL and 'Set Max' ! ARE YOU PEOPLE IGNORANT ! I DO NOT THINK SO . YOU ARE STUPID , EDIATS , BRAIN LESS , BRAIN DEAD , ANTI - HINDUUS , SHAMELESS ---etc. etc. to show this kind of ads.I
Rajani, India (Bharat)
13 Mar 2009, 03:23
Christian and Muslim faith are not shown in any derogatory manner, only the Hindu is. This is outrageous! Have Hindus become second class citizens of India?
Girish Manohar Komerwar, India (Bharat)
17 Mar 2009, 07:39
Stop this nonsense the set max channel and IPL gain money from hindus and use against them. they are real enmery of INdia and Hindus. All hindus please show them their place.
jayashankar, United Arab Emirates
18 Mar 2009, 04:50
I strictly condemn this kind of advertisements.who is allowing this kind of scenes in media must be penalised and punished,and also this will create bad image on hindus and conflicts ,so there is a compulsory and must be the strict law to be create in the sensor board, and implement through out the Bharath.
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Sandeep Nanoskar, India (Bharat)
19 Mar 2009, 12:45
Because most of the HINDUS are slept, they do not have real sentiments for their DHARMA, incidents of denigration are frequently happpening. If we really do the worship of our deites,then everyone of us should protest against the SET MAX, IPL organisers who are getting profit from our money. Shame on all concerned peoples.
shekhar gadewar, India (Bharat)
20 Mar 2009, 06:40
It is shameful act by that singapoor based sony channel group.
if possible, ask them to do that on Gautam Budhdha
Seema, India (Bharat)
21 Mar 2009, 04:12
Congrats to all Hindus for successfully stopping these naradhams from denigrating the religion. Jai Shri Ram
Suhas Vaman Sane, India (Bharat)
28 Mar 2009, 10:59
These people only means business; That is why IPL is there with a price tag for every player which represents a nation. In short by promoting IPL, each nation is being purchased by these so called business people who do not see anything else but money.
I do support the cricket matches(20-20); but nobody has got the right to put price tags on players who represent nation; its a SHAMEFUL act.
Tomorrow they can also put a price tag on the prime minister, president, chief minister etc. Hence we should support only cricket and not the ugly theme.

Also the cheer leaders should be banned from 20-20 atleast in Bharat.
All Hindus will protest against such ads henceforth.
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Amar, United Kingdom
14 Apr 2009, 08:01
We Hindus should wakeup and protest anything that is anti hindu. We seems to have more tolerant than any other religion, which is why everybody try to ride on us. It is the our own people who are more dangerous to us than people from other religion. Stop supporting people like Lalu, Paswan, Mahesh Bhat etc., who in the name of secularism are destroying our religion. I hope those who join HJS are the concerned Hindus and the best thing we can do is educate Hindus of the danger of growth of other religion in India and eradicate castism, unite all the hindus and help the poor hindus with whatever we can, so that they will not be lured by other religion.
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