THE LOVE GURU

Mike Myers was mad as hell. As a a comedian, he is thick-skinned enough to withstand jokes at his expense and even scathing attacks by critics. But the relentless campaign by the self-styled Hindu leader—leader Rajan Zed against his film The Love Guru had tipped the balance for Myers.
“There is one dude who lives in the desert and has a tiny congregation, who has not seen the film,” Myers said, earlier last week, referring to Zed who is based in Nevada “ And he still decided that potentially the film will hurt his feelings. When he sees the film, he will see that what Guru Pitka (Myer’s characterin The Love Guru) believes in is a fictional, mythical, non-denominational belief system.” The film and Guru Pitka’s teachings had nothing to do with Hinduism, Myers added, as he set out to promote the film.
The Hindu American Foundation—issued its own press release. Members of the group had attended a screening of the film in Minneapolis. The Love Guru, the release said, was vulgar, but definitely not Hinduphobic.
“The film was vulgar, crude and, in the opinion of many og out attendees, too often tasteless in its puerile choice of humor. Very few of the Hindus, viewing the film, however, found it overly anti-Hindu or mean-spirited, indeed no Hindu or Sanskrit terms beyond “ashram” are ever used in the film.”