'Bawaal' Gets Bashed By Jewish NGO!

Star Bollywood hero Varun Dhawan and young beauty Janhvi Kapoor's emotional love story 'Bawaal' was released directly on Amazon Prime Video on 21st July. It got a mixed response from the audience and critics alike. While the performances were praised, the usage of the Nazi Holocaust is what was objected by many.

A human rights NGO named Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) which is dedicated to the victims of the Nazi Holocaust has found fault in this movie and demanded Amazon Prime Video to remove the film immediately. They issued a statement that says, "Directed by well-known Indian filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari, the film's storyline which is set in contemporary times, leads to scenes in which the protagonists enter a gas chamber in Auschwitz and are suffocated while wearing striped clothing. Hitler is used as a metaphor in the movie for human greed, with the main protagonist, saying to his wife, 'We're all a little like Hitler, aren't we?'"

Rabbi Abraham Copper who is a part of SWC has said, "Auschwitz is not a metaphor. It is the quintessential example of Man's capacity for Evil. By having the protagonist in this movie declare that 'Every relationship goes through their Auschwitz,' Nitesh Tiwari, trivialises and demeans the memory of 6 million murdered Jews and millions of others who suffered at the hands of Hitler's genocidal regime."

He added, "If the filmmaker's goal was to gain PR for their movie by reportedly filming a fantasy sequence at the Nazi death camp, he has succeeded. Amazon Prime (Prime Video) should stop monetising Bawaal by immediately removing this banal trivialisation of the suffering and systematic murder of millions of victims of the Nazi Holocaust."