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Hindus Claim Their Protest Stumbled "Love Guru", Now Nominated for "Worst Film"

Hindus have claimed that their protest movement contributed to the blunt failure of the Hollywood movie "The Love Guru" and now being short-listed for seven Golden Raspberry Awards for worst in the film.

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, who spearheaded the protest movement against "The Love Guru" starting in March last, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, stated that although various issues contributed to its failure, but their effective protest resulting in boycott call, supported by other people of faith, was one of the major factors.

Zed, who is the president of Universal Society of Hinduism, thanked the world filmgoers for having a feel for the pain of Hindu brothers-sisters by rebuffing "The Love Guru". Various Hindu, Catholic, Presbyterian, Jewish, Native American, Methodist, Buddhist, youth, film, spiritual/religious, music, yoga, civil rights, etc., leaders issued statements in support of this cause espoused by Rajan Zed.

Rajan Zed argued that it was pure and blatant ridiculing of Hinduism, the oldest and third largest religion of the world with about one billion adherents and a rich philosophical thought. No faith, larger or smaller, should be ridiculed at. Today it was Hinduism; tomorrow Hollywood might attempt to denigrate another religion/denomination.

Worst in film Golden Raspberry Awards, calling "The Love Guru" "the year's biggest box office bomb" and "decidedly unloved", has nominated it for "Worst" in categories of: Picture, Director (Marco Schnabel), Actor (Mike Myers), Actress (Jessica Alba), Screenplay (Graham Gordy), and Supporting Actor (Ben Kingsley, Verne Troyer).

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops declared "The Love Guru" "morally offensive" and slapped it with its highest rating "O". "Preview Online", which calls itself "informative tool for Christian parents and moviegoers", gave it Morality Rating of -4 (Dangerous), which is lowest of five categories, highest being +4. "Christian Spotlight on Entertainment" gave it a Moral Rating of "Very Offensive". Crosswalk, a Christ-centered corporation, wrote in the movie review, "…slew of seriously wince-inducing jabs at India's culture (horrible, even when meant in fun)…"

Its Rotten Tomatoes Rating was "86% Negative" and according to reports, its Box Office was $32,200,122 while budget amounted to about $62 million.