Vivek Agnihotri film sparks fresh controversy in New Zealand over censorship row – FilmyVoice
Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Information is doing nicely on the field workplace. Starring Anupam Kher, Pallavi Joshi, Darshan Kumar and others in key roles, the movie relies on the Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley through the Nineteen Nineties insurgency. Now, the movie has sparked a brand new controversy forward of it launch in New Zealand on March 24.
New Zealand outlet Stuff on Saturday reported that the nation’s chief censor David Shanks is reviewing the movie’s R16 classification after issues had been raised by the Muslim neighborhood forward of the film’s launch on March 24. In accordance with New Zealand’s Classification Workplace, an R16 certificates mandates {that a} movie can’t be seen by kids under 16 with out grownup supervision. Shanks informed the outlet that the classification workplace’s motion doesn’t imply the movie is being banned within the nation. He added that the members of the Muslim neighborhood had approached him with issues the movie “may elevate anti-Muslim sentiment and potential hatred.
Former New Zealand deputy prime minister Winston Peters has stated that censoring the movie could be an assault on the liberty of New Zealanders. He wrote on Fb, “To censor this movie is tantamount to censoring info or photographs from the March fifteenth atrocities in New Zealand, or for that matter eradicating from public data all photographs of the assault on 9/11.Terrorism in all its kinds, it doesn’t matter what its supply, needs to be uncovered and opposed. This try at selective censorship would quantity to 1 additional assault on the liberty of New Zealanders and other people worldwide.” he added.
(With inputs from PTI)
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