Mumbai-based organization to protest against Pakistani film that will be screened at MAMI
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MUMBAI MIRROR (October 17, 2016)
A city-based social
organisation, Sangharsh, is irked with the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival
organisers for selecting a Pakistani film, Jago Hua Savera, to be
showcased at the upcoming event, and plans to protest the same for which
it has sought police permission.
“The organisers of this event are more likely to flare the outrage among people by screening this Pakistani film at their festival. This will just not be acceptable as it will give rise to more tension and outrage among the people,“ read a letter written by the organisation's president, Prithvi Mhaske, pointing out that after the IMPPA ban on Pakistani actors and the decision of the single screen theatres in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa to ban movies featuring Pak actors, this “pouring so much love towards the Pakistani actors“ was just not acceptable. “If the organisers do not stop screening the film, my workers would stall the screening of the film.“
The 1958 film was even selected as Pakistan's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 1960 Oscars. It will be screened in the 'restored classic' section of the festival.
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MID-DAY (October 17, 2016)
With just four days to go for the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) Film Festival, organisers are facing threats of a disruption, if 1958 Pakistani film 'The Day Shall Dawn' is screened.
Prithvi Maske, president of a local NGO Sangarsh Foundation, filed a complaint with Amboli police on Saturday, seeking ban on the Oscar nominated film's screening. In his complaint, Maske says, "Due to tension among Indians against Pakistan and Pakistanis after the Uri attacks, it [the film's screening] is likely to flare the outrage."
Maske asks "why MAMI organisers are showering so much love on Pakistanis" when film bodies have decided to ban Pakistani artistes in Bollywood and more recently, single screen theatres have also made it clear that they won't screen films featuring actors from across the border.
He also said his NGO will hold protests at an Andheri multiplex, one of the festival venues if the film was screened. As reported 'Unfazed by political tension' (hitlist, October 14), the bilingual movie is a semi documentary that sheds light on the quality of life in a small village in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Since the film was made before Bangladesh was formed in 1971, sources close to the organisers had raised questions over the film being targeted.
“The organisers of this event are more likely to flare the outrage among people by screening this Pakistani film at their festival. This will just not be acceptable as it will give rise to more tension and outrage among the people,“ read a letter written by the organisation's president, Prithvi Mhaske, pointing out that after the IMPPA ban on Pakistani actors and the decision of the single screen theatres in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa to ban movies featuring Pak actors, this “pouring so much love towards the Pakistani actors“ was just not acceptable. “If the organisers do not stop screening the film, my workers would stall the screening of the film.“
The 1958 film was even selected as Pakistan's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 1960 Oscars. It will be screened in the 'restored classic' section of the festival.
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MID-DAY (October 17, 2016)
With just four days to go for the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) Film Festival, organisers are facing threats of a disruption, if 1958 Pakistani film 'The Day Shall Dawn' is screened.
Prithvi Maske, president of a local NGO Sangarsh Foundation, filed a complaint with Amboli police on Saturday, seeking ban on the Oscar nominated film's screening. In his complaint, Maske says, "Due to tension among Indians against Pakistan and Pakistanis after the Uri attacks, it [the film's screening] is likely to flare the outrage."
Maske asks "why MAMI organisers are showering so much love on Pakistanis" when film bodies have decided to ban Pakistani artistes in Bollywood and more recently, single screen theatres have also made it clear that they won't screen films featuring actors from across the border.
He also said his NGO will hold protests at an Andheri multiplex, one of the festival venues if the film was screened. As reported 'Unfazed by political tension' (hitlist, October 14), the bilingual movie is a semi documentary that sheds light on the quality of life in a small village in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Since the film was made before Bangladesh was formed in 1971, sources close to the organisers had raised questions over the film being targeted.
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