By means of PTI
THANE: Former Maharashtra minister Jitendra Awhad, who used to be arrested two days again in a case of disrupting a display of Marathi movie “Har Har Mahadev” at a theatre right here, has mentioned distorting historical past will give a improper message to the long run era.
Chatting with journalists in Maharashtra’s Thane town after being granted bail via a court docket right here on Saturday, the Nationalist Congress Birthday party (NCP) chief maintained that the film distorted the historical past of Chhatrapati Shivaji Mahara.
This has no longer handiest defamed the Maratha king but additionally tarnished the state’s symbol and it’ll no longer be tolerated, he mentioned.
On November 7, Awhad and his supporters forcibly stopped a display of “Har Har Mahadev” at a multiplex within a mall in Thane town, alleging the movie distorted the historical past of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Some moviegoers had been additionally crushed up once they protested in opposition to the disruption, movies of the incident confirmed.
A First Data File (FIR) used to be registered over the incident at Vartak Nagar police station beneath Indian Penal Code sections 323 (attack) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of peace).
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Awhad claimed he used to be requested to be provide on the Vartak Nagar police station for an enquiry at 5 pm on Friday, however used to be positioned beneath arrest at 2.30 pm with out right kind criminal formalities.
The police had been helpless and the orders had come from “upper government”, he additional claimed, including that he had stored the person who used to be allegedly manhandled on the multiplex on November 7.
Awhad mentioned he used to be in a position to stand the results of preventing in opposition to the distortion of historic details.
“Presenting historical past in a distorted method will give a improper message to the long run era and this must be stopped,” the NCP chief mentioned.
He mentioned the censor board whilst certifying a film, must additionally examine the historic details introduced in it.
By means of dubbing the film in numerous languages, there used to be a conspiracy to defame the Maratha warrior king, Awhad claimed.
On Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray giving a voice-over for the film, Awhad appealed to the political chief to desist from giving the voice-over for motion pictures which distort historical past.
THANE: Former Maharashtra minister Jitendra Awhad, who used to be arrested two days again in a case of disrupting a display of Marathi movie “Har Har Mahadev” at a theatre right here, has mentioned distorting historical past will give a improper message to the long run era.
Chatting with journalists in Maharashtra’s Thane town after being granted bail via a court docket right here on Saturday, the Nationalist Congress Birthday party (NCP) chief maintained that the film distorted the historical past of Chhatrapati Shivaji Mahara.
This has no longer handiest defamed the Maratha king but additionally tarnished the state’s symbol and it’ll no longer be tolerated, he mentioned.
On November 7, Awhad and his supporters forcibly stopped a display of “Har Har Mahadev” at a multiplex within a mall in Thane town, alleging the movie distorted the historical past of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Some moviegoers had been additionally crushed up once they protested in opposition to the disruption, movies of the incident confirmed.
A First Data File (FIR) used to be registered over the incident at Vartak Nagar police station beneath Indian Penal Code sections 323 (attack) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of peace).
ALSO READ | NCP chief Jitendra Awhad arrested over disruption of screening of Marathi movie Har Har Mahadev
Awhad claimed he used to be requested to be provide on the Vartak Nagar police station for an enquiry at 5 pm on Friday, however used to be positioned beneath arrest at 2.30 pm with out right kind criminal formalities.
The police had been helpless and the orders had come from “upper government”, he additional claimed, including that he had stored the person who used to be allegedly manhandled on the multiplex on November 7.
Awhad mentioned he used to be in a position to stand the results of preventing in opposition to the distortion of historic details.
“Presenting historical past in a distorted method will give a improper message to the long run era and this must be stopped,” the NCP chief mentioned.
He mentioned the censor board whilst certifying a film, must additionally examine the historic details introduced in it.
By means of dubbing the film in numerous languages, there used to be a conspiracy to defame the Maratha warrior king, Awhad claimed.
On Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray giving a voice-over for the film, Awhad appealed to the political chief to desist from giving the voice-over for motion pictures which distort historical past.