Well, film industry is full of beliefs and superstitions. Even today, a film starts off with the breaking of a coconut and a film is usually wrapped up with the breaking of a pumpkin.
In fact, there was a time when the producers would go to Tirumala and put the reels at the feet of Lord Venkateswara before releasing it. Well, now the prints are digital, so that is no longer possible.
And when it comes to atheists in the industry, one can think of Akkineni Nageswara Rao and then comes Kamal Haasan. Being a Tamilian, it is rather surprising that he does not believe in God, but he insists that work is god for him. He says be believes in his work and that amounts to worship for him.
Though he confesses that when he was a child, he would believe in Subramanya Swamy like many Tamilians do, Kamal Haasan says once he started seeing all the pujas and prayers of people and to what extent they can go to fulfill them, he stopped believed in the existence of god.
He says he also does not like many people cashing in on the name of god. Ironically, while Kamal Haasan who happens to be a disciple of K Balachander is an atheist, KB’s other disciple Rajinikanth is a staunch believer in god.
Meanwhile, Kamal Haasan insists that god is just a belief and that he detests all the rituals that people do to please the almighty.
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