Originally Posted by StarDust
IIFA has Hrithik Roshan, Salman despite reports of carnage of Tamils!!
Even as reports of large number of Tamil civilian casualties during the war between Sri Lankan govt and LTTE that ended on 18 May 2009 continues to pour in, the Indian big stars like Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan, etc, have given their consent to take part in the glittering IIFA event to be hosted in Colombo from June 3-5 this month.
A doctor, who was part of the medical help team that visited Sri Lankan refugee camps in the war ravaged area, has revealed that he saw a huge line of suffering civilians and treated almost forty thousand Tamils.
Of these at least ten thousand were children in the need of medial help. In fact, this huge number of suffering civilian population was part of the 300,000 people displaced due to ongoing war between the Sri Lankan Govt and LTTE.
Doctor was aghast at the claim of Sri Lankan govt that there were no large number of casualties and even questioned the numbers given by UN (it put the causalities in the range of 7,000). However, doctor put the numbers to be at least four times higher than what was stated by UN.
The Tamil groups in India, who are protesting against the holding of IIFA function in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, have also been trying to point out this bizarre fact of war in the island nation.
However, despite of these protests in India, a Sri Lankan minister Mr. Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena has claimed that majority of the bollywood stars had given their consent to take part in the IIFA function. Even reports suggest that Salman Khan will be going to attend the function.
In fact, Hrithik Roshan, too, has given his consent and will also be playing a celebrity cricket match on the occasion to help the needy LTTE ravaged child soldiers. Chances are that besides Hrithik Roshan, the team will also have actor and model Dino Morea and some other members of his group in it.
Another celebrity team will be lead by Suniel Shetty, who has also confirmed his participation at the function. There will also be renowned cricketers like Sanath Jaisurya and Kumar Sangakaara from Sri Lankan side.
However, latest reports suggest that bollywood King Khan has backed out of the function. The ostensible reason is some other prior commitment but sources say that Shah Rukh Khan does not want to involve himself in any controversy after being the object of attack for his comment on Pakistani players during IPL.
Earlier, there was speculation that Shah Rukh Khan will be attending the function as his arch rival and Shehanshah of bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, had declared his intention not to attend the function due to Tamil protests. Amitabh is the brand ambassador of IIFA but did not want to antagonize Tamils over the issue.
Even Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan are unlikely to attend the IIFA event in Colombo due to ‘Raavan’ Tamil connection. ‘Raavan’ is being made in Hindi and Tamil simultaneously and expected to release on June 18. And now by going to Colombo, they did not want to queer the pitch for their upcoming flick.
Similarly, ace filmmaker Mani Ratnam, stars like Kamal Hassan, etc, have already declared their boycott of the function
