Terming the newly released Iranian film Muhammad: The Messenger of God’s content as sacrilegious, a Sunni organisation based in India, Raza Academy, Monday wrote to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and state Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to ban the movie in India and take “legal action” against the movie’s music composer A R Rahman.

In a strong-worded letter, Raza Academy’s joint secretary Mohammad Arif Rizvi said that the movie hurts the “sentiments of Indian Muslims” by showing a person playing the Prophet. According to the organisation, showing pictures or portrayal of the Prophet is blasphemous under Islamic traditions.