Nepal censors 'Delhi Belly'
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PTI
The Pioneer
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Kathmandu - Aamir Khan's latest production 'Delhi Belly', an
expletive-laden adult comedy, has been banned from screening by the
government here barely two days after its release.
The movie has run into trouble with the censor board, which found
certain scenes and dialogues objectionable, but the distributors were
reluctant to make any changes in the film.
The Home Ministry on Sunday issued order to halt screening of the
film and also seized the print of the film along with equipments,
according to Superintendent of Police Kedar Rijal, chief of Kathmandu
District Police Office.
"Delhi Belly contains some obscene scene and dialogue which need to
be removed before screening," said Ganesh Bhandari chairman of Nepal
Film Development Corporation.
The Censor Board under the ministry of information and communication
issued the order to remove some "objectionable scenes" and audio of
the film before screening but the distributors did not comply.
"The government had ordered to halt the screening of the film as the
distributors violated the norms and screened it with all the obscene
dialogue and scene," Bhandari added.
It is not the first time that a Bollywood release has faced troubled
in Nepal. In 2009, the screening of Akshay Kumar-starrer Chandni
Chowk to China over claims that Buddha was born in India. Similarly,
in 2000, Hrithik Roshan's Mission Kashmir faced a ban in Nepal after
newspapers attributed some anti-Nepal sentiments to Hrithik Roshan.
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