Er, you couln’t look above?
Fine.
Here it is, again:
Violence halts Da Vinci Code screening in Hyderabad
IANS 23 June 2006, 09:52pm IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/articleshow/msid-1674892,curpg-2.cms
HYDERABAD: The screening of controversial Hollywood movie “Da Vinci Code” was suspended at a theatre here after a group of Christians,
protesting against the release of the film, ransacked the theatre.
The movie was to be released at Prasad Imax following a direction by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, quashing the state government’s order to ban its screening.
However, dozens of activists under the banner of the Christian United Front raided the theatre and damaged the property extensively forcing the management to suspend the film’s screening.
The protesters, who were carrying banners and placards describing the film as “Devil’s Code”, barged in to the theatre located near the Hussain Sagar lake in the heart of the city even as hundreds of people eager to watch the movie were standing in queues for the tickets of the first show of the movie.
Police said the mob shattered the glass panes and damaged furniture and ticket counters. The protesters also raised slogans against the court’s order lifting the ban imposed by the state government on the film.
Prasad Imax was the only theatre in the state, where the film was scheduled to be released on Friday.
The court, on petitions by the film’s distributors, Wednesday quashed the June 1 government order banning the screening of the movie in the state. The movie was to be released in the state on June 2.
The government move came following protests by various Christian and Muslim groups that said the movie would hurt religious sentiments. The government, in its order, contended that the film might lead to law and order problems.
Following the court order, the distributors had announced plans to release the English and Hindi versions of the movie next week.
The movie, based on Dan Brown’s bestseller with the same title, remains banned in several Indian states.
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Will you eat crow, now?
PS: Look at the URL carefully.
I thought you said “arson” (not damage to interior furniture- pretty low order damage by Hindu standards where the slightest perceived insults to mythical Hindu gods lead to mass throat-slitting and butchering: would’t you say?)