A section of Catholics in the city is angry with the depiction of a nun, and is gearing up to stop 'Tickle My Funny Bone—Story of a Bold Nun' release.
Tickle My Funny Bone—Story of a Bold Nun seems to have tickled anything but the funny bone. A section of Catholics in the city is angry with the depiction of a nun, and is gearing up to stop the movie’s release.
The outrage is over the advertisement of the movie, published on the entertainment pages of two main national dailies in the city. It showed the female lead in the foreground of a church, wearing a habit (nun’s clothes) that has been designed to look skimpy.
“The PIL against the movie Sins last year was filed after its release and came to no avail. This time we won’t let the movie to be released. It is derogatory to the Christian community and faith. The promos are bad enough: a nun shown scantily clad in a habit, with a church in the background,” said Joseph Dias, secretary of the Catholic Secular Forum, Vakola. It was Dias who had filed the PIL in the high court against Sins.
‘Tickle my...’, set for release in May, is a small budget film costing about Rs50 lakh. It is the directorial debut of Marathi theatre actor Yogesh Konkar, who is also the script writer and plays the lead. Asked why he chose a controversial issue, Konkar said, “Well everybody cribs that there is no novelty of subjects, and the same topics are being repeated. So I thought of this.”
Catholics, however, are fuming at his innovation. “The slant in the advertisement is in poor taste. Christian community by and large is a peace loving community, and some people take advantage of it. It is also very wrong to project a person committed to religion as a frivolous character. We are charting out our course of action,” said Dolphy d’Souza, president of Bombay Catholic Sabha, Mahim
The Catholic community has submitted a memorandum to CM Vilasrao Deshmukh, National Minorities’ Commission, I&B ministry, Union minister for minority affairs AR Antulay and police commissioner demanding a ban on the film’s release.
“If the issue is not addressed within the next 3-4 days, we will take it up in a major way. Besides agitation, we will also take legal recourse,” said Dias.
A person named John, who had been the in charge of production for the London-based producer DN Singh (also financing other film personalities), said, “The movie is about a 25-year-old Catholic girl who becomes a nun owing to circumstances. She falls in love with a boy, who tries to bring her back into the mainstream of life. There is raunchiness and naughtiness in the story, but we have not portrayed the subject in a vulgar manner. It is a movie for multiplex audiences.”
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