Mumbai court takes Lido to task for 'humiliating' Shiva and Ganesha in a 90-minute show.
MUMBAI: Objecting to showing lord Shiva and Lord Ganesha in their revue "Bonheur", a lawyer from Mumbai has served notice to the world's most celebrated Cabaret, Lido, asking them to remove the scene that hurts the religious feelings of Hindus. Lawyer Sudhir Shah said that he had watched the revue of Lido on September 27 at Champs Elysees in Paris in France and his religious sentiments were deeply hurt.
"I have served a notice to the Lido asking them to remove the scene from the revue," he told PTI. He said that the theme of "Bonheur" is a woman's quest for happiness and to show the same in the said revue, Lido takes the audience on a 90-minute emotion packed journey to a land of spectacular fantasy and discovery...
.. "But in doing so in its Tableau the revue makes use of Indian gods Shiva and Ganesha and thereby humiliates them and makes a mockery of them," Shah added. The lawyer further said that no person following Hindu religion can tolerate a scene wherein in front of Lord Shiva's idol topless cabaret girls are shown dancing and Lord Ganesha shown dancing Cabaret dance along with them. The producers of the revue Bonheur and the owners of the Lido have not cared about the sentiments of the person following Hindu religion in showing Hindu gods in the Cabaret, he added.