“Karma” is becoming highly popular in Hollywood and other entertainment industries.

In 2009 alone, four films and one television series titled “Karma” were made. Starting with J.L. Freer-Hunt directed 1933 “Karma”, 21 films titled “Karma” have been produced. Beginning with 1912 “The Reincarnation of Karma” (about a snake who is said to resume human form every 100 years) to upcoming 2011 “The Karma Coalition”, there are 61 films whose name includes word “Karma” in it, including “Karma Café”, “Instant Karma”, “Karma Police”, “Karma Bitch”, “Karma Cats”, “Karma Baby”, etc.

There are nine people in entertainment industry whose names somehow have “Karma” attached to it and 68 more who have “Karma” as a part of their names. There have been five characters named “Karma” in movies and two whose name included “Karma”. There are 48 entertainment related companies with “Karma” as part of their names.

Hollywood diva Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls), 23, wrote on social networking service ‘twitter’ sometime back: “i’m all about Karma.. what goes around comes around!”

Hindus have expressed concern over the usage of Hindu terminology loosely in movies and other entertainment industries. Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Hindus welcomed world filmmakers to make films about Hindu subjects but taking Hinduism seriously and respectfully and not reimagining its concepts and symbols just for mercantile greed. “Karma” had definite meaning for devotees and improper usage of such terms was not okay.

Rajan Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, further said that “Karma”, the web of cause and effect and the rule of universal causality resulting from action, was first commented in ancient Satapatha Brahmana, and now forms one of the basic principles of Hindu philosophy. The sum total of one’s actions, desires, feelings, and thoughts form one’s Karma, which is a cosmic law of debit and credit for good and evil.

Meanwhile, Bhavna Shinde of Forum for Hindu Awakening also urged filmmakers to be careful when handling Hinduism concepts and terminology and traditions as insensitive handling resulted in plundering serious spiritual convictions and revered symbols and thus tormenting the devotees.

Hinduism is the oldest and third largest religion of the world with about one billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal.

Hindus concerned over usage of “Karma” & other concepts loosely in Hollywood

“Karma” is becoming highly popular in Hollywood and other entertainment industries.

In 2009 alone, four films and one television series titled “Karma” were made. Starting with J.L. Freer-Hunt directed 1933 “Karma”, 21 films titled “Karma” have been produced. Beginning with 1912 “The Reincarnation of Karma” (about a snake who is said to resume human form every 100 years) to upcoming 2011 “The Karma Coalition”, there are 61 films whose name includes word “Karma” in it, including “Karma Café”, “Instant Karma”, “Karma Police”, “Karma Bitch”, “Karma Cats”, “Karma Baby”, etc.

There are nine people in entertainment industry whose names somehow have “Karma” attached to it and 68 more who have “Karma” as a part of their names. There have been five characters named “Karma” in movies and two whose name included “Karma”. There are 48 entertainment related companies with “Karma” as part of their names.

Hollywood diva Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls), 23, wrote on social networking service ‘twitter’ sometime back: “i’m all about Karma.. what goes around comes around!”

Hindus have expressed concern over the usage of Hindu terminology loosely in movies and other entertainment industries. Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Hindus welcomed world filmmakers to make films about Hindu subjects but taking Hinduism seriously and respectfully and not reimagining its concepts and symbols just for mercantile greed. “Karma” had definite meaning for devotees and improper usage of such terms was not okay.

Rajan Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, further said that “Karma”, the web of cause and effect and the rule of universal causality resulting from action, was first commented in ancient Satapatha Brahmana, and now forms one of the basic principles of Hindu philosophy. The sum total of one’s actions, desires, feelings, and thoughts form one’s Karma, which is a cosmic law of debit and credit for good and evil.

Meanwhile, Bhavna Shinde of Forum for Hindu Awakening also urged filmmakers to be careful when handling Hinduism concepts and terminology and traditions as insensitive handling resulted in plundering serious spiritual convictions and revered symbols and thus tormenting the devotees.

Hinduism is the oldest and third largest religion of the world with about one billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal.

~RJ