Pathaan: Deepika Padukone’s bikini in Bollywood film song sparks outrage in India
BJP state minister demands ‘rectification’ of song and threatens to ban the film
India’s right-wing ecosystem is angry and a fringe outfit is protesting because Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone wore an orange coloured bikini for a song in a new movie alongside Shah Rukh Khan.
The reason for their anger is because the song for the Hindi-language movie Pathaan is called Besharam Rang, which translates to “shameless colour”.
The colour saffron – a shade of yellow or orange – is considered holy by adherents of the Hindu religion.
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