Malay Indians urged not to ‘over-idolise’ Tamil actors

March 4, 2013 | World News | Written by

Kuala Lumpur, Mar 4: Malaysian state Penang’s Consumer Association has called on Indian movie fans in the country to stop ‘over idolising’ the posters and cut-outs of Tamil film actors in the theatres.

Malaysia Nanban reported that the Indian community has been urged to stop pouring of milk and putting garlands on posters of actors.

Its education officer N.V. Subbarow said that this practice is popular in Tamil Nadu, but now it seems that this trend has spread to Malaysia, the Star reports.

He was commenting about that the ‘milk abhisegam’, which means pouring of milk, was recently done in theatres in Petaling Jaya during the release of Kamal Hassan’s Vishwaroopam and uploaded on YouTube.

He said that this act reflects the backwardness of the Indian community and is not suitable for the multi-racial community in this country.

He said that milk abhisegam should only be done in temples and urged the Indian movie fans to form fan clubs to help the poor, organise moral classes for the Indian students and also aid Tamil schools instead of idolising Indian actors, the report said. (ANI)