Members of the Valmiki community stopped the screening of Bollywood movie"Shootout at Wadala" at Sun City Mall in Hisar today.
Activists of the Bhartiya Valmiki Dharma Samaj led by its state secretary Gaurav Bhim went to the Sun City Mall where filming of"Shootout at Wadala" was in progress and forced its managers to stop the screening. The film was released throughout the country on Friday. The activists collected posters of the movies and set them on fire outside the mall. A police party soon arrived there on the request of the mall owners and pacified the protesters.
Bhim alleged that some dialogues in this movie were derogatory towards the Valmikis. He maintained that the film had already been banned in Punjab and now they would not allow it to be screened in Haryana.
Jagmohan Lohia, manager of the mall, said the organisers had themselves stopped the afternoon show of the film looking into the growing anger among the Valmikis."We have no intention of hurting religious sentiments of any community and hence we will not resume the film"™s shows till the matter is resolved," he added.
ML Sarwan, secretary general, Haryana Valmiki Mahasabha, has also condemned the derogatory words for the community used in this film. He demanded a permanent solution whereby such dialogues were filtered at the time of censure certification.
KARNAL: The screening of"Shootout at Wadala" was stopped at cinema halls here.
Valmikis held protests against some remarks in the film outside the cinema halls. They tore the posters and set hoardings on fire.
The film was being screened at Novelty Theatre and another theatre at a mall. Protesters forced the cinema halls to stop screening of the film and warned them of serious consequences if they dared to screen the film again.
The protesters under the banner of the Bhartiya Valmiki Dharam Samaj (BVDS) burnt the effigies of producer and director of the film Ekta Kapoor and Sanjay Gupta, respectively. They said mere apology for including"defamatory and objectionable" remarks against the Valmikis would not be enough and the screening of the films would not be allowed unless all remarks, which hurt the sentiments of the Valmikis were removed.