Contemporary painting and Indian politics

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<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Aug 22 2007, 09:58 AM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Aug 22 2007, 09:58 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:oCYmcS...clnk&cd=2&gl=us
Father: Salim Khan (Bollywood screenwriter)
Mother: (Hindu)
Brother: Sohail Khan (actor)
Brother: Arbaaz Khan (actor)[right][snapback]72351[/snapback][/right]
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->but I thought Arora-s were catholic or half-catholic.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Arbaaz Khan is husband of Malaika Arora, who from what I recall reading is sister to Amrita Arora. I do remember that Malaika Arora stated that she is fully Catholic of religion. (But they have a 'Hindu' dad apparently.) Hence Amrita is a 'relative' of Salman.
:contented sigh: Useless trivia finally expended. Moral: if I wait long enough, even every bit of nonsense that's snuck into my head becomes 'information'.

I didn't know Amrita's religion was different to her sister's, though. (One not unlikely scenario is that she is indeed catholic, but that the protesting 'catholic Secular forum' - which was mentioned in the news piece Ramana posted - petitioned to have her excommunicated <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo--> )


<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In the late 1970s, Salim took a second wife, the dancer/actress Helen, who lives in a separate household. Relations between his two families were rumoured to have been tense at first, but Salim's children by his first wife are now said to be fond of his second wife as well.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->How islamic of Salman's dad. Now we can all wait for wives#3 and #4, unless he expires before he can trick some other poor women into islamic matrimony. Will Arbaaz go the way of his dad and be true to his islami ancestry and do the same?

Am feeling bad for Sushila ('Salma'). At least Helen would have known he already had a wife, but bet Sushila never saw this one coming. Has she never heard of the magic word 'divorce'?
Wish Indians had the sense to admit that the applicable concept is not 'wife' but 'concubine'. Says a lot about the islamic mentality of the kids when they let their mum be treated this way.
(And Salma isn't an islamic name, is it? It's just Middle-Eastern, I thought. From what I read, Salma Hayek's dad is a christian from the ME and her mum is a C American catholic - Hayek's religion is christianity. Her dad obviously named her, hence the ME name.)


(2) The catholic secular forum is <i>so very</i> secular. When they feel the least bit slighted (from what I can make out, the painting is going to hang in Amrita Arora's quarters - not quite the Mumbai police station and other public places where MFH's truly offensive trash is displayed in full view) they run to Mama Sonia, The Non-bella Mafia. Maybe she can get the pope to burn Amrita and Salman. Salman's an infidel to them anyway. I'm not convinced that Amrita isn't a faithful catholic like her sister, am certain her faithful mum baptised both.
http://movies.indiainfo.com/2007/08/21/sal.html
(Be pre-warned: photo of scary-looking woman on page)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>We will get Salman and Amrita arrested</b>
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 17:07 [IST]
DNAIndia
An apparently innocent revelation by actor Amrita Arora to certain sections of the media on Sunday has sparked off yet another religious controversy. Amrita had mentioned that her in-law of sorts and pal Salman Khan would be gifting her a <b>painting to adorn the walls of her new Bandra pad</b>.

The work, she said, would be of ‘The Last Supper’ but with a difference….Jesus and the 13 apostles would be replaced by Amrita’s family members!

<b>This seemingly friendly gesture has, however, outraged the Catholic Secular Forum (CSF). John Dias, general secretary of the forum</b> says, “We were expecting a denial or an apology, but since both are not forthcoming we are planning to lodge an FIR against them at the Bandra police station in a day or two.

<b>AR Antulay (the Union Minister for Minorities) has asked us to hold on for two days. He has promised to talk to Soniaji (Gandhi) and the PM (Manmohan Singh) regarding this.”</b>

Dias says if the actors had spoken to them they could have solved the issue earlier. <b>“Hundreds of Catholics are asking us to take immediate action against them. We’ll stage a morcha in front of Amrita’s house soon. We’ll get Salman and Amrita arrested,” he says.</b>

The Forum is now expecting more than a mere apology. “We want them to go the police commissioner’s office and apologise publicly through a press conference,” Dias says. The Forum had earlier raised an issue against the release of Dan Brown’s ‘Da Vinci Code’ in Mumbai.

Salman Khan and Amrita Arora were unavailable for comment.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->The catholic secular forum is so secular they've set a new benchmark. The dictionary entry for secularism needs to be updated.