NEW DELHI: The producer and director of the arguable film "Padmaavat" moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday difficult the decision of four states to prohibit its screening within their jurisdictions simply days ahead of its scheduled liberate on January 25.
Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, with the producer and the selling rights holder, pleaded thru advocate Mahesh Agrawal with a bench headed through CJI Dipak Misra for an pressing listening to at the joint petition in search of a route from the SC to the governments of Gujarat, MP, Rajasthan and Haryana to facilitate protected screening of the film.
Blaming state governments for performing under the pressure of fringe teams to prohibit exhibition of the film of their states, the petitioners stated the film had to transparent layers of objections and in spite of everything got a certificates permitting public exhibition from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) after 5 adjustments, together with changing the identify from "Padmavati" to "Padmaavat".
Rajput teams like the Karni Sena had been up in fingers in opposition to the film, claiming it portrays the story of Queen Padmini of Mewar in a distorted fashion.
The CBFC cleared the film after a disclaimer was once agreed upon that the film was once in keeping with a work of fiction and a tune sequence was once altered to stay sensitivities in thoughts. But the protesters have persisted to call for a nationwide ban at the film.
The petitioners stated as soon as the film was once cleared through the CBFC, the statutory body under Cinematograph Act, 1952, state governments had been prohibited from taking any unilateral motion to prohibit exhibition of the film which formed a part of the filmmaker's freedom of speech and expression assured under Article 19 of the Constitution.
"Feeling threatened by the demand for banning this film by a few fringe groups who have taken it upon themselves to be the sole arbiter of what is permissible free speech, the states have imposed a blanket ban on exhibition of this film," they stated.
Senior advocate Harish Salve will argue for the petitioners ahead of the CJI-led bench on Thursday. "The states have no right to prohibit exhibition of a film which has been certified fit by the CBFC. The power of the state is limited to regulation of cinemas. The limited power to deal with emergencies arising upon the exhibition of a film has been conferred upon states under local laws. The SC has already settled the issue relating to the limited power of states under local laws and has ruled that states cannot abuse this power to ban movies that have been certified as fit for public exhibition," the petitioners stated.
They stated it was once the obligation of the state to "provide full protection and security to cinema halls where controversial movies are being screened".
The petitioners stated that aside from converting the title, they'd put a disclaimer at the historical accuracy of the sequence of occasions, an additional disclaimer that the film didn't subscribe or glorify the observe of "Sati"; modified the "Ghoomar" tune and removed references to precise towns in dialogues.
The film is in keeping with the epic "Padmavat" written through Malik Muhammad Jayasi in 1540.
Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, with the producer and the selling rights holder, pleaded thru advocate Mahesh Agrawal with a bench headed through CJI Dipak Misra for an pressing listening to at the joint petition in search of a route from the SC to the governments of Gujarat, MP, Rajasthan and Haryana to facilitate protected screening of the film.
Blaming state governments for performing under the pressure of fringe teams to prohibit exhibition of the film of their states, the petitioners stated the film had to transparent layers of objections and in spite of everything got a certificates permitting public exhibition from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) after 5 adjustments, together with changing the identify from "Padmavati" to "Padmaavat".
Rajput teams like the Karni Sena had been up in fingers in opposition to the film, claiming it portrays the story of Queen Padmini of Mewar in a distorted fashion.
The CBFC cleared the film after a disclaimer was once agreed upon that the film was once in keeping with a work of fiction and a tune sequence was once altered to stay sensitivities in thoughts. But the protesters have persisted to call for a nationwide ban at the film.
The petitioners stated as soon as the film was once cleared through the CBFC, the statutory body under Cinematograph Act, 1952, state governments had been prohibited from taking any unilateral motion to prohibit exhibition of the film which formed a part of the filmmaker's freedom of speech and expression assured under Article 19 of the Constitution.
"Feeling threatened by the demand for banning this film by a few fringe groups who have taken it upon themselves to be the sole arbiter of what is permissible free speech, the states have imposed a blanket ban on exhibition of this film," they stated.
Senior advocate Harish Salve will argue for the petitioners ahead of the CJI-led bench on Thursday. "The states have no right to prohibit exhibition of a film which has been certified fit by the CBFC. The power of the state is limited to regulation of cinemas. The limited power to deal with emergencies arising upon the exhibition of a film has been conferred upon states under local laws. The SC has already settled the issue relating to the limited power of states under local laws and has ruled that states cannot abuse this power to ban movies that have been certified as fit for public exhibition," the petitioners stated.
They stated it was once the obligation of the state to "provide full protection and security to cinema halls where controversial movies are being screened".
The petitioners stated that aside from converting the title, they'd put a disclaimer at the historical accuracy of the sequence of occasions, an additional disclaimer that the film didn't subscribe or glorify the observe of "Sati"; modified the "Ghoomar" tune and removed references to precise towns in dialogues.
The film is in keeping with the epic "Padmavat" written through Malik Muhammad Jayasi in 1540.
Padmaavat makers move SC against ban by states
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