India bans 'Nehru and Mountbatten love scenes' from film

[pkd]

India bans 'Nehru and Mountbatten love scenes' from film

The Indian government has ordered that love scenes between characters based on its first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten, the wife of Britain's last Viceroy, be deleted from a new Hollywood film of their romance.

Officials revealed they had given permission for the film Indian Summer, starring Hugh Grant and Cate Blanchett, to be filmed on location in India on the condition that scenes showing the couple in bed, kissing, and dancing, are deleted.

Another in which Nehru declares his love for Lady Mountbatten is also understood to have been deleted.

The script was vetted by a committee of senior government officials who were concerned it portrayed Nehru in a poor light.

The film, which is due for release in 2011, is based on Alex Von Tunzelmann's book Indian Summer, The Secret History of the End of Empire, which tells the story of Nehru and Lady Mountbatten's "intense and clandestine love affair" during the Mountbattens' return to India for the handover and partition in 1947.

Ms Von Tunzelmann yesterday said she was surprised by the claim because her book had not depicted any "love scenes". She was expecting to see a copy of the script as a consultant to the film, but had not yet seen one, she said.

A spokeswoman for India's Information and Broadcasting Ministry declined to discuss the details of scenes deleted from the script, but confirmed it had been approved for filming "subject to a few restrictions".

All foreign films shot in India must be approved by a vetting committee which screens the script to make sure "nothing detrimental to the image of India or the Indian people is shot or included in the film".

The portrayal of Nehru and the protection of his reputation remains a sensitive issue for both India's Congress-led government and its opposition.

A recent book which blamed Nehru for India's partition caused an outcry and led to its author, a former foreign minister, being expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party.

More than 60 years after India's independence, the country's largest party is still dominated by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty – Congress President Sonia Gandhi is the widow of Nehru's grandson Rajiv Gandhi, and mother of heir-apparent Rahul, Nehru's great-grandson.

The film is expected to be shot on location in Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and the capital Delhi, and to feature Irfan Khan, one of the stars of Slumdog Millionaire as Nehru. It will be directed by Joe Wright, whose credits include Atonement and Pride and Prejudice.

The nature of Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten's relationship is still hotly contested in India, where many prefer to believe the "lonely widower" and the adventurous Vicereine were devoted but platonic friends.

Their view is shared by the Mountbattens' daughter, Pamela, who described their "special relationship" in her memoir India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power.

She described the relationship as a "happy threesome" with her father Lord Mountbatten and quoted a letter in which he said Nehru and Lady Mountbatten "are so sweet together, they really dote on each other in the nicest way".

 

[DaRk WaVe]

Love scenes b/w Nehru & Lord Mount batten or Love b/w Nehru & Edwina Mountbatten

Already Nehru is in gun sight of Jaswant Singh, waiting for that book, avoid posting this crap man...

 

[booo]

Love scenes b/w Nehru & Lord Mount batten or Love b/w Nehru & Edwina Mountbatten

anyways crap article....

"love scenes" would've been fun

 

[Awesome]

Even I thought Lord Mountbatten, everyone knows they did it

 

[shravan]

Even I thought Lord Mountbatten, everyone knows they did it

:embarrassed:

 

[SQ8]

Poor Mountie.. first.. he cant be the governor general of Pakistan..
then.. his wife's cheating on him with his number two..
three.. now.. since he is dead and gone.. not only do a great number of people in the subcontinent hate his guts for various reasons and curse him.. he is also to be ridiculed for his wife's unfaithfulness.

 

[pkd]

Even I thought Lord Mountbatten, everyone knows they did it

Title : Nehru may have had gay tendencies, reveals biographer
Author : Chidanand Rajghatta
Publication : The Indian Express
Date : February 5, 1997

The suggestion that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru may have had homosexual experiences was made after extensive research and conversations with those who knew him, according to Prof Stanley Wolpert, author of Nehru: A Tryst With Destiny, a new biography which has outraged sections of the Indian intelligentsia.


Speaking to The Indian Express from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) where he teaches Indian history, Prof Wolpert said his conclusions were based on "interviews with a lot of people and my own discussions with Nehru".


But the controversy, he added, was being blown out of proportion because the references to Nehru's gay tendencies "constituted only a small section of the book." The 'revelation' though is mentioned on the book jacket.


Prof Wolpert said he did not broach the subject during his three meetings with Nehru in 1957-58, when he spoke with the Indian leader for his doctoral dissertation on the Indian freedom movement. But his own interaction with Nehru during the meetings also helped him to the conclusion, he added.


"My own aim as a scholar is to get as close to the truth as possible... I believe in the Indian motto of Satyameva Jayate.... if I was not convinced enough I would not have written it ... those who say 1 have overstated it should counter it with evidence, "the historian said, while himself not proffering any "evidence."


In the book which has just hit the stands in the United States, and is due for release in India shortly, Wolpert implies that Nehru had several homosexual encounters during his early years in Allahabad, and later at Harrow and Cambridge.
He also describes instances when Nehru dressed in drag "Wearing his wig, made up with lipstick, powder and eye shadow, his body draped in silks and satins, Jawahar most willingly offered himself up night after night to those endless rehearsals for the Gaekwar's At Home as a beautiful young girl, holding out her jug of wine and loaf seductively to her poet lover, Omar," he writes in one passage.
The book has received favourable reviews in the American press Publishers Weekly describing it as a "warts-and-all portrait of India's brilliant and charismatic first prime minister" in which Wolpert "convincingly goes beneath Nehru's exalted image to reveal some pesky demons." The New York Times Book Review described the book as being "respectful of its subject but free of the
hagiography that has often diminished academic writing on Nehru."


Neither review touched on Nehru's supposed homosexual liaisons.


Asked why none of the previous biographies, including the more recent one by M J Akbar, did not allude to this aspect of Nehru's fife, Wolpert said "I have no idea."


In the book, Wolpert says Nehru's first attachment was with a young man called Ferdinand Brooks who was his French teacher. Brooks was a theosophist but Wolpert says before coming to India the "handsome' man was a disciple and lover of Charles Webster Leadbeater, a renegade Anglican curate who was accused of child molestation and pederasty on several continents. Leadbeater openly advocated mutual masturbation among young boys.


Wolpert also suggests Nehru may have had a gay relationship in Harrow and makes much of Panditji's admiration for Oscar Wilde.

 

[MZUBAIR]

 

[shchinese]

for many years, I thought Nehru is impotence.

 

[Khajur]

for many years, I thought Nehru is impotence.

How ?? Did he refuse u??

BTW gays aren't impotents.

 

[grey boy 2]

for many years, I thought Nehru is impotence.

Brother; I read an article from a British magazine "Asia Preview" a

few years back in HongKong saying Nehru not interesting in either

male or female.

 

[Khajur]

Lord Mountbatten was a known homosexual and his wife had many flings outside their marriage.Beyond that,the nature of relationtionships they shared is trivial speculation .

 

[pkd]

How ?? Did he refuse u??

BTW gays aren't impotents.

Not necessarily. Just read that -

He also describes instances when Nehru dressed in drag "Wearing his wig, made up with lipstick, powder and eye shadow, his body draped in silks and satins, Jawahar most willingly offered himself up night after night to those endless rehearsals for the Gaekwar's At Home as a beautiful young girl, holding out her jug of wine and loaf seductively to her poet lover, Omar," he writes in one passage.

Got the point?

 

[Khajur]

Not necessarily. Just read that -

Got the point?

He also describes instances when Nehru dressed in drag "Wearing his wig, made up with lipstick, powder and eye shadow, his body draped in silks and satins, Jawahar most willingly offered himself up night after night to those endless rehearsals for the Gaekwar's At Home as a beautiful young girl, holding out her jug of wine and loaf seductively to her poet lover, Omar," he writes in one passage.

It only suggests Nehru prepared hard for the rehearsal of a drama where he played a girl.

First develop some comprehension skill and two, read about impotency from a medical bulletin.

 

[grey boy 2]

Here some more information about gay's impotence;

Latent gayness is something that one may not have discovered during adolescence but one can feel it. The feeling of being gay is something that may need some digestion and acceptance but one’s gay instincts may cause impotence in young men. Accepting that one is gay is something while acting against one’s gay feeling can turn out to be a failure when erectile dysfunction occurs. The brain may be willing to overcome one’s gayness in order to prove that one is not gay but the heart may not be feeling the same way, which is why some gay men have difficulty having sex with women.
Preventing Impotence In Young Men