{"id":46094,"date":"2022-07-06T22:06:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T13:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/06\/indian-director-facing-threats-over-film-poster-of-goddess-with-pride-flag"},"modified":"2022-07-06T22:06:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T13:06:56","slug":"indian-director-receives-threats-over-film-poster-of-goddess-with-pride-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46094","title":{"rendered":"Indian director receives threats over film poster of goddess with Pride flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police open cases against Leena Manimekalai for \u2018hurting religious sentiments\u2019 with short film Kaali <\/p>\n<p>An Indian film director is facing police investigation over the poster for her new film, which depicts the Hindu goddess Kaali smoking a cigarette and clutching an LGBTQ+ flag.<\/p>\n<p>Leena Manimekalai, an Indian film-maker based in Canada, has received thousands of threats of violence after the poster for her short film Kaali, which was aired in the Canadian city of Toronto at the weekend, went viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/06\/indian-director-facing-threats-over-film-poster-of-goddess-with-pride-flag\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police open cases against Leena Manimekalai for \u2018hurting religious sentiments\u2019 with short film Kaali An Indian film director is facing police investigation over the poster for her new film, which depicts the Hindu goddess Kaali smoking a cigarette and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,244,516,62,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-hinduism","category-india","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46123,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46094\/revisions\/46123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}