Critics & Hindus Slam Naomi Campbell Bollywood Debut “Karma, Confessions, & Holi”
Speaking of Naomi Campbell: The supermodel’s first Bollywood venture, Karma, Confessions, & Holi, has bombed badly at the box office in India, with critics describing the flick — filmed in New York and Princeton, New Jersey — as lacking “everything a good movie consists of,” “undignified,” “disaster,” “unholy mix,” “unholy mess,” and “torture.”
Ouch. Tough room.
Now Hindu religious leaders have taken aim at the film, which was directed by Manish Gupta and co-produced by Robert De Niro’s daughter Drena.
Rajan Zed, the president of Universal Society of Hinduism, tells WENN, “Hindus have strongly objected to the usage of Hindu terminology in movies and Karma, Confessions and Holi has nothing much to do with karma or Holi.
“Hindus welcome world filmmakers making films about Hindu subjects but taking Hinduism seriously and respectfully and not reimagining its concepts and symbols just for mercantile greed. Holi and karma have definite meaning for devotees, and improper usage of such terms is not OK.”
