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Simply Ignore the Hollywood Movie The Love Guru and the Controversy

If you had heard about the movie ‘The Love Guru,’ then you must be aware of the controversy surrounding it or it might have been the controversy that introduced the movie to you. Now, if you haven’t heard about the movie, you will hear a lot of it in near future that it lampoons Hindu religion – especially it ridicules the guru-disciple relationship which is held sacred by millions of Hindus – and uses Hindu terms playfully. And people writing against fundamentalists curtailing the freedom of an artist in the name of religion. All this will continue till a better controversy captures the imagination of the people. Now in the comedy ‘The Love Guru,’ Pitka – the character played by Mike Myers famous for the Austine Powers movie – is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by Gurus. Under the Gurus in India , Pitka becomes an expert in teaching spirituality, motivation, bliss, and peace. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and for