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Ban the film

The Da Vinci Code mixes fact with fiction, and history with storytelling. One cannot take liberties with true characters and respected institutions such as the Church and pass them off as fiction. Especially when the person denigrated is Jesus Christ. Let Dan Brown write whatever occurs to him on imaginary characters. Screening of the film will be an insult to the followers of Christ.

Matthew Adukanil,
Chennai

India has the noble tradition of welcoming and respecting all religions. It should not encourage anything that disrespects and tarnishes the image of deities and scriptures in the name of films, theatre, books, paintings, cartoons, posters, etc. We should not blindly imitate the freedom (licentiousness) of the West that has lost the sense of the holy.

William Macwan,
Ahmedabad

Any literature that depicts a real person should be based on truth. Otherwise, it becomes slander. Dan Brown's work is a prejudiced concoction laced with a smattering of facts here and there. Freedom of speech and expression is not absolute.

I.P.P. Prabhakara Rao,
Secunderabad

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