{"id":2712,"date":"2005-07-13T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/07\/catholics-go-bollywood\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T15:04:00","slug":"catholics-go-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/07\/catholics-go-bollywood.html","title":{"rendered":"Catholics go Bollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The Indian Express<\/a><\/i> reports:<\/span><\/p>\n

Treading uncharted territory, the social service wing of the Delhi Catholic Church is producing a full-fledged Hindi feature film, with all the ingredients of a typical Bollywood blockbuster, including a very hot item number.<\/p>\n

Aisa Kyun Hota Hain<\/i>, slated to hit theatres in October 2005, is possibly the first feature film produced by the church worldwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I know, this is the first film produced by the church anywhere in the world,\u201d Fr Dominic Emmanuel, spokesman of the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese (DCA) said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can it really be that no branch of the Catholic church has ever, ever, ever produced a film before? I would be very surprised if this were true, but then, the world is full of surprises, and I imagine it all depends on how you parse a phrase like \u201cproduced by the church\u201d. For example, The Spitfire Grill<\/a><\/i> (1996) was produced by the fund-raising arm of a Catholic charity, I believe, but the money for it might not have come from the diocese\u2019s operating budget, per se<\/i> \u2014 that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it is not clear from the story what the specifically Catholic nature of this film will be (we are told simply that \u201cthe film explores relationships at three levels \u2014 that of mother and son, husband and wife and friendship\u201d), but we do know, at least, that \u201ca Sikh basketball coach\u201d will provide a bit of comic relief, and in the words of producer Fr. Emmanuel himself, \u201cIt is about communal harmony \u2014 the film even has a Buddhist<\/a> character.\u201d<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Hmmm, the only recent film bearing this name at the IMDB<\/a> is a movie slated to open in August, directed by Mahesh Bhatt and starring Rati Agnihotri, and the plot outline given there is: \u201cA single mother contend with her playboy son\u2019s newly diagnosed case of HIV infection.\u201d That\u2019s all the info the IMDB has \u2014 but it sure sounds like the same film. Could be interesting.<\/p>\n

UPPERDATE: Come to think of it, I also wonder what ever became of those two duelling Bollywood films about the death of Graham Staines, a Christian missionary who was killed along with his two sons by a Hindu mob. As reported nearly two years ago<\/a>, The Murder of a Missionary<\/i> was supposed to take Staines\u2019s side, while Dara: The Hero<\/i> was supposed to be a tribute to Dara Singh, the man who was convicted of burning the Staineses to death.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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