Moral policing of God.. Deccan Chronicle.

Censorship ka zamana hai bhai, har kadam phoonk-phoonk ke rakhna padta hai. Who knows kab, kahan, konsi baat kis ko hurt kar jaye. Chalo, I thought, the one place where the censor people won't have struck would be religious shows on TV. So I settled down to watch the coolest Hindu bhagwanji, on Devon Ke Dev Mahadev (Life OK).

Early this month, Mahadev got married to Parvati and the two are now in Mount Kailash, getting to know each other. Parvati lovingly made kheer for Shiv's assorted gang members who, incidentally, look like the cross between Dolly Bindra and The Great Khali, with Hobbit ears and hygiene. On spotting the kheer, Shiv groupies started behaving like Ravi's uncouth brothers from Satte Pe Satta. But unlike Hemaji, Parvati didn't lose her cool and calmly gave them a lesson in table manners.

Next we cut to the asurs. Their leader Tarakasur is very upset at the union of Shiv-Parvati and is dreading their child. So the asurs decide to use the services of Miss Lekha who, apparently, is a 24-hour helpline to all kaam-vaasna issues.

Devon Ke Dev... is one of the better written religious shows on TV. Here Shivji has angst and is often found alone and weeping. He has all the must-have accessories ' rubber cobra who nods occasionally, tiger-print knee-length skirt, wrist bands and anklets ' except the chillum. Why isn't Shivji maroing kash? Is it because India's smoking police has said that every time he lights up there has to be running disclaimer: "Yeh jo kash pe kash laga rahe hain, reckless behaviour afford kar sakte hain because yeh Bhagwan hain, amar hai; Aap, unfortunately, tuchch praani hain and aap ke liye dhumrapaan karna Yamraj ko missed call dene ke barabar hai."

But seriously, how far are we going to go on this antiseptic moral road to Moron Puri? Are we next going to show that Lord Ram didn't dump Sita, but that he filed for separation on suspicion of Stockholm Syndrome? Is Ma Kali's tongue going to be red from sucking on masala chuski and not human heads?

Main sochti hoon ki Something is really wrong when multi-national companies can flog their soaps, baniyans and colas, but we can't get our favourite gods the way we know them ' mast-mast, smoking a chillum.

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Moral policing of God

Z dis gal praising DKDM or z putting a question mark b4 hz bhasm???

I think this lady doesn't have any knowledge About Mythology ... She's not telling about only our Mahadev but also for Ramayan & Kali Maa.

Are yaar she seems so doubled faced! What's with all the chuski and dumping. It seems like I am reading something 'bout a teenage life! Hmmph...at least try to think 'bout ppls sentiments.

Thnx for sharing.

i think d author is trying to say tat mythological shows r not shown very realistically as it has happened... some kind of commercialism is added to it...so she writes sarcastically tat even they may alter d actual epics as how it happened n change to present life styles... but i don think DKDM has gone out of d way till now..

Simillar to some minimum qualification needed to get a job, a reasonably sufficient knowledge should be needed to write on any particular subject, otherwise the result will be same as the such article, where just to stand out among others, some irrisponsible words are used.

I feel what the article is trying to say is that we try to distort on screen as far as mythological serials go of what was said in the various purans and scriptures to suit public viewing as largely our population is over sentimental and ridden by a mindset which is infiltrated over generations about what is adapted in the larger sense as being acceptable and that applies to even Gods.
So a Shiv who is supposed to be a lover of Cannabis (Ganja) to depict that on screen would be a huge risk. Most of the audience is not well verse in the scriptures and purans so they might feel offended that their God is shown in a presumed poor light.
The language in the article is bad and feels more like an amateur writer or someone penning a blog for the first time.

Whoever wrote that article missed the bhang party of both Mahadev & the ganas that took place b4 his wedding. 'Maroing kash'? And where on earth did they get the idea that Mahadev smoked anythinig?

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

And where on earth did they get the idea that Mahadev smoked anythinig?

Shiva is associated with smoking cannabis. Ritual smoking of the stuff and its use as prasad is not uncommon in the subcontinent (esp among some sadhus). Some legends connect the origin of cannabis to Shiva.

Smoking? As in rolling it up like a beedi, lighting it up and smoking?