Former England spinner Monty Panesar has strongly condemned the Bollywood movie ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’, starring Aamir Khan, for its portrayal of the lead character, who is a Sikh. Panesar called the movie “disrespectful” and “disgraceful” to the Indian Armed Forces, Indian Army and Sikhs.
The movie is a remake of the 1994 Hollywood movie ‘Forrest Gump’, which depicts the life of a man with a low IQ, making it all the way into the US Army and into the American history books. Panesar explained that the Hollywood movie is explicable because the US Army was recruiting low-IQ men to meet requirements for the Vietnam War. However, he did not agree with the plot of the Bollywood movie due to its inaccurate portrayal of a Sikh.
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