5 March 2015 - QA 6

Gurudev, today the documentary film based on Nirbhaya was released by BBC. Though the Indian Government tried to ban it, it has come out through various sources. The movie does project that Indian culture is backward with respect to women. What are your views on this?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

I don’t give much importance to these movies because many of them are the imagination of the producer or director or script writers. You will always find, some will have one point of view and others will have another point of view. People are free to express their views on this planet.
We must never restrict artists from expressing their point of view. It may be far from the truth. Knowing this you should take art as art. I would take it that way.
I know some artists have been shouting in the parliament yesterday in India. That is also another movie because many movie stars are getting into parliament. I would say, people who think this is the real story, they should remember it is just an artist’s imagination. Even documentaries are done with a view to make things a little more spicy and more thrilling or interesting.