Delhi court halts release of Sunny Deol’s ‘Mohalla Assi’

A Delhi court on Tuesday restrained the makers of Mohalla Assi from releasing the film till further orders, observing that it may “hurt religious sentiments of the people”. The film stars Sunny Deol, Ravi Kishan, Sakshi Tanwar in leading roles.

The court passed the order on a plea filed by Gulshan Kumar, seeking to restrain the director and producer from releasing the film on the grounds that its characters are shown using abusive and filthy language. To emphasise the plaintiff’s point, the counsel had shown the trailer of the movie to the judge.

The plaintiff also sought to restrain the defendants from advertising the movie until the alleged objectionable scenes are removed from it.

The Delhi court passed an ex-parte ad-interim injunction order against the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), the producer and director of the film and others saying they are “restrained from releasing the movie Mohalla Assi all over India, scheduled to be released on July 3 till further orders”.

The court stated that prima facie a “case is made out that until the religiously hurting scenes and dialogues wherein abusive and filthy language has been used, are removed, the movie should not be released”.

The court observed that the trailer showed that the movie was based in the locality of Assi Ghat in Varanasi on the banks of river Ganga and said “in the entire trailer clip, characters have been shown using very filthy language”. “…a character dressed as Lord Shiva is shown using filthy language… It may (hurt) religious sentiments.” stated Civil Judge Kishor Kumar.

Source : MSN