Protesters stop shooting of film Love You Shankar in Varanasi

Shooting of film

Love You Shankar

, at Assi ghat was stopped on Thursday evening by a group of people. The activists objected to the dance sequence that was being canned on a song, with lyrics that included a line, Om Jai Jagdish Hare (a popular devotional song). They raised a protest on the westernized version of the popular bhajan and also on the revealing attire of the background dancers, who were dancing on the number.
To avoid any untoward incident, the police intervened and the shooting was stalled.

Prateik Jain shooting for a song (BCCL/ Arvind Kumar)
The film is directed by Rajiv S Ruia and has Shreyas Talpade, Tanishaa Mukherji, Abhimanyu Singh, Hemant Pandey in important roles.
A dance sequence of the film, Love You Shankar, which is currently being filmed in Banaras, brought back the buzz at Assi Ghat. An elaborate set was created on the ghat, where a scene of celebration of festival of Mahashivratri was canned.

Elakshi Gupta

of Taanhaji fame and Prateek Jain, Mr India World 2014, who is making his foray in Bollywood, grooved on the song Is Dil Ka Bhala Kya Kare Om Jai Jagdish Hare accompanied by

Sunita Desai

, emoting as a DJ.
Tejas Desai, producer of the film says, “There was no intention to hurt any religious sentiments, respecting the feeling of the people we decided to stop the shooting. We will now reshoot the song in a studio in Mumbai making the necessary changes in the attire of the artists in the song.”

(L) Rajiv S Ruia and (R) Tejas Desai (BCCL/ Arvind Kumar)