{"id":64480,"date":"2017-02-26T13:34:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T13:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=64480"},"modified":"2017-02-26T13:34:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T13:34:17","slug":"boycott-lipstick-under-burkha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/boycott-lipstick-under-burkha\/","title":{"rendered":"Boycott Lipstick Under Burkha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A group of Muslim leaders in Bhopal on Saturday passed a resolution advocating the boycott of Alankrita Shrivastava\u2019s Lipstick Under My Burkha, and asked the central government to ban the controversial movie for hurting the community\u2019s religious sentiments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The All India Muslim Tehwar Committee, which met here under the chairmanship of Ausaf Shahmeeri Khurram, also disclosed plans to take legal action against the movie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-64481\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/76191.jpg\" alt=\"Boycott Lipstick Under Burkha\" width=\"806\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/76191.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/76191-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The movie, directed by Alankrita Shrivastava and produced by Prakash Jha, revolves around four women \u2013 a burkha-clad college student, a young beautician, a mother of three and a 55-year-old widow who rediscovers her sexuality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khurram told that nobody has the right to comment on a \u201csensitive issue\u201d like the burkha, which is worn out of choice by Muslim women. \u201cIf somebody peeps into the burkha worn by our sisters and daughters, we won\u2019t remain silent. Burkha is an Islamic tradition, and nobody has the right to talk about it in a negative way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-64482\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/4653006809398421169_Org.jpg\" alt=\"Boycott Lipstick Under Burkha\" width=\"720\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the \u201ctradition of burkha\u201d was not limited solely to Muslims. \u201cEven Hindu women in various parts of the country \u2013 including Rajasthan, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh \u2013 opt for parda dhari (using a veil to cover the face). In such circumstances, why should they focus only on us with regard to such a sensitive, personal matter?\u201d Khurram argued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Muslim leaders in Bhopal on Saturday passed a resolution advocating the boycott of Alankrita Shrivastava\u2019s Lipstick Under My Burkha, and asked the central government to ban the controversial movie for hurting the community\u2019s religious sentiments. The All India Muslim Tehwar Committee, which met here under the chairmanship of Ausaf Shahmeeri Khurram, also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[33673,33672,33683,33676,7635,33675,33681,33679,33677,33671,11494,1462,28331,790,33682,33674,9630,2079,309,33678,29854,33680,4322],"class_list":["post-64480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-top-stories","tag-alankrita-shrivastava","tag-all-india-muslim-tehwar-committee","tag-ausaf-shahmeeri-khurram","tag-beautician","tag-bhopal","tag-burkha","tag-hindu-women","tag-islamic-tradition","tag-khurram","tag-lipstick-under-my-burkha","tag-mother","tag-movie","tag-muslim","tag-muslim-women","tag-parda-dhari","tag-prakash-jha","tag-punjab","tag-rajasthan","tag-saturday","tag-sensitive-issue","tag-student","tag-tradition-of-burkha","tag-uttar-pradesh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/07a90726-f9bd-11e6-aa44-d0b605bc50f5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}