Haryana bans 'The Legend of Michael Mishra'

August 05, 2016 22:24

Haryana government today banned the screening of the Hindi film 'The Legend of Michael Mishra' in the state for a period of eight weeks.

A decision to this effect was taken in view of the reports that there was resentment among members of the Valmiki community regarding some objectionable utterances in a part of the film, an official spokesman said.

This order would remain in force for eight weeks until further orders, he said.

The film, produced by Kishore Arora and directed by Munish Jha, was slated to be released today.

He said the government had received information that certain organisations and individuals were protesting against the exhibition of the film, as the lead actor Arshad Warsi in a particular scene utters "objectionable words" which have the potential to outrage the religious feelings of the community.

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