Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ Banned In Saudi Arabia, Kuwait & Other Countries For This Atrocious Reason! Here’s Why

Hollywood’s sensational film director Steven Spielberg is all prepared for the discharge of his new directorial West Facet Story, set to occur on the tenth of December. However in accordance with the most recent reviews, the film has been banned in international locations like ‘Saudi Arabia’, ‘UAE’, ‘Qatar’, ‘Bahrain’, ‘Oman’ and ‘Kuwait’.

Learn on to search out out why these international locations banned the brand new Disney and twentieth Century’s film.

As per the reviews by media outlet Selection, it’s stated that in international locations like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, West Facet Story was not permitted a launch certificates. On the opposite aspect, in international locations like ‘Qatar and Oman’, Disney denied slicing of the scenes requested by the censors leading to no launch of the movie within the international locations. The scene in query was the transgender scenes from the film.

Effectively, this was sure to occur with (West Facet Story) as international locations like Qatar and Oman have very strict guidelines over what they censor. Center Jap international locations have strict guidelines over censorship relating to points reminiscent of sexuality, swearing amongst different issues as they apparently are usually not accepted of their nation.

Effectively, this isn’t the primary incident that has occurred this yr. Earlier than this, the MCU‘s Eternals confronted the identical issues because the film displayed their first-ever homosexual couple.

Speaking in regards to the film, the story revolves round a man named Tony who falls head over heels for Maria throughout a highschool dance in 1957 New York Metropolis. Their growing romance burns gas between two rival gangs Jets and Sharks, who need to rule the streets.

West Facet Story stars Ansel Elgort as Tony and Rachel Zegler as Maria. Together with the 2, the film additionally stars Maddie Ziegler, Ariana DeBose, Rita Moreno, Mike Faist, David Alvarez, of their respective supporting roles.

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