Vishwaroopam Row: After
Muslims, Christians express anger
After Muslim
organisations expressed reservations over the release of megastar kamal haasan's multilingual film
"Vishwaroopam", Christians took the film to court.
However, the Madras High
Court on Tuesday, Feb 5 turned down the plea of the petitioner, C. Jebakumar
George, who said "because of the screening of the film, great prejudice
had been caused to Christians in India".
"This is the second
attempt to stall the release of the movie, Vishwaroopam," the First Bench
comprising Acting Chief Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice M.Venugopal said
in its order dismissing the petition, reports The Hindu.
The High Court turned
down the "plea for a direction to the Central and State Governments and
the Central Board of Film Certification to ban the Kamal Hassan-starrer
‘Vishwaroopam' in its present form throughout the country until the film is
edited to be in conformity with the guidelines under XII and XIII of the
Cinematograph Act," added The Hindu.
The petitioner George
said he watched the controversial film in Thiruvananthapuram on January 27.
George added he was
shocked to find many scenes to be very violent and derogative of religions and
races. George accused the film offends the sentiments of Christians community.
The 95-crore film ran
into trouble after Muslims organisations in Tamil Nadu expressed anger over the
film. They said the film depicts Muslims in bad light. However, the film was
released in neighbouring states Karnataka and Kerala and audiences appreciated
it. Its Hindi version, "Vishwaroop" is doing well across North India.
Moreover, deck for the
release of "v" in
Tamil Nadu, its biggest market has been cleared. The 58-year-old actor-director
agreed to run seven scenes in the film said to be "offending" to
Muslim groups without any audio.
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