Haryana joins Gujarat, Rajasthan in banning Padmaavat

January 16, 2018 15:14

After Rajasthan, now Haryana government has declared that it will not allow the screening of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Padmaavat.

The film was due to release December 1, 2017, but producers Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and Bhansali Productions postponed it after protests from Karni Sena.

The Central Board of Film Classification approved the film with a UA certificate, after making five cuts and changing the title from Padmavati to Padmaavat. However, the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh will not allow the films release.

On Monday, the producers bought full-page advertisements in Indian newspapers stating that the film is based on the epic Padmavat by Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi, and is a work of fiction; the film does not have and never had a dream sequence between Khilji and Padmavati; and that the film is an ode to the valor and courage of the Rajputs.

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