Pathaan: Deepika Padukone’s bikini in Bollywood film song sparks outrage in India

BJP state minister demands ‘rectification’ of song and threatens to ban the film

India’s right-wing ecosystem is angry and a fringe outfit is protesting because Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone wore an orange coloured bikini for a song in a new movie alongside Shah Rukh Khan.

The reason for their anger is because the song for the Hindi-language movie Pathaan is called Besharam Rang, which translates to “shameless colour”.

The colour saffron – a shade of yellow or orange – is considered holy by adherents of the Hindu religion.