Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore (MB) - Pic Dayanand Kukkaje

Mangalore, May 26: It was being talked that the movie Da Vinci Code was to be released here a few days earlier, but the local exhibitors were apprehensive and cautious about the possible backlash from the sizeably large Christian population here.

Protest may be sole and singular, but it counts

Much in contract to expectations and fears, there was a sole protester who persistently demonstrated peacefully and non-violently.

Finally, the movie hit the screen on Friday, May 26. It looked as if the Christian community could not care less. 'Certain things are best ignored. The more you give importance, more undue publicity will be generated,' said a prominent community member speaking to this correspondent.

Exhibitors all over the country are more cautious because the Muslim community has promised support to the Christian protest. But in Mangalore, nothing untoward happened, except for a mute protest from a sole demonstrator.

On the whole, the Christian community appears to have decided to ignore the movie, so that the hullaballoo dies down soon.