Now, Vishwaroop gets red signal in Uttar Pradesh
1 Feb 2013 6:32 AM IST
The ruling Samajwadi Party Thursday said it won't let Vishwaroop - the Hindi version of the Kamal Haasan movie - to release in Uttar Pradesh until it ceased to be controversial.
‘We will not allow the film to be released until there is a final decision on it in the courts and the controversy around it settles down,’ party general secretary Ram Asrey Kushwaha said.
He said the authorities would first watch the film and only then would the govt consider its release in the state.
In December, Kamal Haasan was in Lucknow to promote his film and met CM Akhilesh Yadav. The original Vishwaroopam in Tamil was banned for 15 days in Tamil Nadu following threatened protests by Muslim groups who said the film maligned their community.
Against the backdrop of the controversy over Haasan’s film Vishwaroopam, the central government Thursday said it will form a committee for a ‘re-look’ into the Cinematographic Act to make the censor board’s regulatory framework more robust.
‘Certain issues have come up as a result of certain decisions which have been taken in the past by certain state governments so it was felt that maybe a time has come to have a re-look at the Cinematographic Act and that is why I have suggested to the secretary, Information and Broadcasting to form a committee to go into the matter in a holistic manner,’ Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said.
‘We will not allow the film to be released until there is a final decision on it in the courts and the controversy around it settles down,’ party general secretary Ram Asrey Kushwaha said.
He said the authorities would first watch the film and only then would the govt consider its release in the state.
In December, Kamal Haasan was in Lucknow to promote his film and met CM Akhilesh Yadav. The original Vishwaroopam in Tamil was banned for 15 days in Tamil Nadu following threatened protests by Muslim groups who said the film maligned their community.
Against the backdrop of the controversy over Haasan’s film Vishwaroopam, the central government Thursday said it will form a committee for a ‘re-look’ into the Cinematographic Act to make the censor board’s regulatory framework more robust.
‘Certain issues have come up as a result of certain decisions which have been taken in the past by certain state governments so it was felt that maybe a time has come to have a re-look at the Cinematographic Act and that is why I have suggested to the secretary, Information and Broadcasting to form a committee to go into the matter in a holistic manner,’ Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said.
Next Story
