Citing religious reasons, Barsana villagers up in arms against Akshay Kumar flick

AGRA: Residents of Barsana in Mathura have raised objection to a wedding sequence in the upcoming movie, 'Toilet Ek Prem Katha', the shooting of which is underway in the village, as it portrays marriage ‘against their traditions’.
The shooting for the movie, which has Akshay Kumar in the lead role, started earlier this month and is a satire on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.Nearly 20 pradhans of several panchayats in Barsana have decided to approach the district administration regarding a sequence showing a boy from Nandgaon getting married to a girl from their village, a practice which has not been allowed in the village for ages.
Talking to TOI, Goswami Ghanshyam Raj Bhatt, spokesperson of Braj Acharya Peeth, said that they also have objections to the fact that a movie with the word ‘toilet’ in its title is being shot in their district, which has a religious history. He added that the movie depicts a marriage between a boy and girl from the villages of Nandgaon and Barsana which is against the tradition as no marriages are solemnised between couples from these villages as one represents the home of Lord Krishna and the other of Goddess Radha.
He claimed that people of all religions who reside in these two villages follow this age-old tradition. He also said that they would meet the district magistrate and urge him to stop the shooting of this movie.