Priya Varrier Viral Video: Here's Why Oru Adaar Love Song Has Been Accused of 'Hurting' Muslim Sentiments
No...it has nothing to do with Priya Prakash Varrier's famous wink!
In this age and era, anything and everything can be twisted and manipulated to feel like it is hurting someone or some community in one way or the other. The nation is just getting out slowly from the whole silly furore over Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmaavat. Anything famous is now being used by certain fringe groups to gain traction for themselves. So when the video of the latest internet sensation (sorry Taimur) Priya Prakash Varrier went viral, we were just counting the minutes before someone went ahead and filed an FIR against the song.
And guess what? That's exactly what happened some time back. As we reported earlier, a group of Muslim youngsters has filed a complaint against the song at Falaknuma Police Station in Hyderabad. No, they had no issue with Priya Varrier herself, but rather the lyrics of the song, Manikya Malaraya Poovi, which is from the movie Oru Adaar Love. Priya Varrier plays one of the female leads and it is the cute expressions of hers in the song that made her such an internet rage.
Here's the song.
So what is it about the lyrics that that the group claims has hurt their religious sentiments? If you are not a Mallu, here's the translation of the lyrics,
"A Woman Like The Pearl Flower
Her Highness Khadeeja Beevi
In The Holy City Of Mecca
She Lived Like A Queen A Woman
Like The Pearl Flower
Her Highness Khadeeja Beevi
In The Holy City Of Mecca
She Lived Like A Queen (Indo Music)
Asked Khathim An Nabiyyin (Prophet Mohammed)
Sent As In Charge Of Her Trade Expedition,
At The First Sight Of Him
She Desired Him
After Completing The Expedition
Blessed Rasoolullah Came Back
To Marry The Prophet
Was The Beevi Desire
A Woman Like The Pearl Flower
Her Highness Khadeeja Beevi
In The Holy City Of Mecca
She Lived Like A Queen"
As you can see, the song is about Prophet Muhammad's wife Khadeeja Biwi and how she desired to marry him. In a normal sense, there is nothing objectionable about the whole fracas. But the mere mention of the Prophet seems to have riled these youths, as they didn't look deep into the context.
Oru Adaar Love director, Omar Lulu, a Muslim himself, has defended the lyrics, while speaking to a news channel where he claims that all communities are singing the song.
But do we even need a reason to get angry these days?
(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Feb 14, 2018 11:49 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).