Friday, March 29, 2024 |
Aditi Rao Hydari misses ‘Heeramandi’ event after weddingBigg Boss winner Munawar Faruqui among 14 detained in Mumbai raidMrunal Thakur follows ‘grandma diet,’ believes in not skipping mealsSelena Gomez shares makeup-free selfies on InstagramDiljit collaborates with Saweetie for ‘Khutti’ Song, says ‘she just landed in Punjab’Malaika Arora, Arjun Kapoor, Richa, Ali Fazal, Farah, and more at KJo’s BashJamie Lever is ‘honoured’ to represent her heritage with Telugu debut filmJanhvi and Aditya Roy Kapur shine on the ramp for Kalki at Lakme Fashion Week x FDCII am fond of Kate Moss, says Diana Penty, about her fashion iconKriti Kharbanda, Pulkit Samrat share pictures from dreamy wedding

'pk' row: BJP chief Amit Shah cites right to protest

Posted January 3rd, 2015, 10:33 AM IST

'pk' row: BJP chief Amit Shah cites right to protest

Mumbai/ New Delhi/ Jaipur/ Varanasi: BJP President Amit Shah on Friday said that people have the freedom to protest against Amir Khan-starrer film PK.

Speaking to reporters in Mumbai on Friday, Mr Shah said, “People have the freedom to do so (protest),” when asked about the protests against the movie which has raised the hackles of hardline Hindu outfits.

Meanwhile, complaints were lodged on Friday against the director, producer and actor of the movie at several places. In Jaipur, amid continued protests against the movie by some right wing groups, a case has been registered against the director, the producer, and the actor under section 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings) and 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language) of the IPC.

However, the director, the producer and the actor have not been named in the FIR filed in Bajaj Nagar police station here, police said on Friday. In Varanasi, which is the constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a complaint was filed in a court against actor Aamir Khan, director Rajkumar Hirani and producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra for “hurting the religious sentiments of Hindus” and promoting “nudity and vulgarity” in the film.

The application was moved in the court of additional chief judicial magistrate, Tarun Kumar Singh, here by a local lawyer Kamlesh Chandra Tripathi. Meanwhile, Arya Samaj leader Swami Agnivesh on Friday came out in support of PK, saying those who are protesting against the film are “ignorant” about religion.

“I believe that they have not even seen the film. The movie has attempted to dispel the myths and superstitions,” said Agnivesh. “We really need to eliminate superstitions as our Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the very first day after taking charge had said that poverty will not end till the time we eradicate superstitions,” he said.

However, as protests against the film continued, the producers on Friday said the film has broken Dhoom 3 record to become the biggest earner in Bollywood by collecting Rs 278.52 crores since its release on December 19. “I had never in my wildest dreams thought this film will cross these numbers. It’s humbling,” the director said.

Akhilesh in row for PK download:

The controversy over UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s statement that he watched Aamir Khan-starrer PK after downloading the film is growing bigger with twitterati criticising him for “supporting piracy.”

Sanjay Sharma, an RTI activist, has sought an FIR against Mr Yadav under Section 154 of the CrPC for downloading the film from a website and watching a pirated copy. While declaring tax exemption for PK on Wednesday, the Chief Minister had said that he had downloaded the film a few days ago but watched it only a day before.

The CMO, however, tweeted, “UPCM Akhilesh Yadav has licensed @UFOmovies digifacility to download and watch movies. Controversy around pirated download is unwarranted.”

Sharing

Photos
Latest

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: file_get_contents(): http:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0

Filename: views/newsdetails.php

Line Number: 29

Backtrace:

File: /home5/am2pm/public_html/application/views/newsdetails.php
Line: 29
Function: file_get_contents

File: /home5/am2pm/public_html/application/controllers/News.php
Line: 135
Function: view

File: /home5/am2pm/public_html/application/controllers/News.php
Line: 95
Function: newsdetails

File: /home5/am2pm/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: file_get_contents(http://www.indiaaffiliates.in/ads.php?size=300X250): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found

Filename: views/newsdetails.php

Line Number: 29

Backtrace:

File: /home5/am2pm/public_html/application/views/newsdetails.php
Line: 29
Function: file_get_contents

File: /home5/am2pm/public_html/application/controllers/News.php
Line: 135
Function: view

File: /home5/am2pm/public_html/application/controllers/News.php
Line: 95
Function: newsdetails

File: /home5/am2pm/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

Opinion Poll
shambo shankara movie
Hit
Average
flop
Advertisement
advertisement
Videos