Pakistan bans Anushka Sharma's film 'Pari' for promoting 'non-Islamic values, anti-Muslim sentiments'

Hindi movie big name Anushka Sharma's new movie 'Pari' has been banned in Pakistan, because it "promotes black magic, a few non-Islamic values and anti-Muslim sentiments", stated The specific Tribune.

Pakistan's censor board also banned the Hindi horror film as it "reportedly consists of objectionable sequences where Quranic verses had been used", stated any other Pakistani news outlet Geo tv, quoting a cinema proprietor.

"The movie no longer most effective blended Quranic verses with Hindu chants but also portrayed Muslims in a bad mild as they had been shown the usage of Quranic verses to do black magic," a supply at Pakistan's censor board, the principal Board of movie Certification, instructed Geo.

further, the Pakistani censor board stated the film appears to approve of black magic, which it said is un-Islamic.

“Pari’s script, dialogues and storyline move in opposition to our Islamic values. The concepts within Islam have different ideologies approximately magic. This film stimulates the visitors in favour of black magic and promotes thoughts which can be contradictory to our religion,” a senior member of the board informed the Tribune.

The Pakistan movie distributors association’s chairman, Chaudhry Ejaz Kamra, agreed with the u . s .'s censor board's decision.

“Any film that goes towards our lifestyle and Islamic history ought to be banned in Pakistan,” he said.

One theatre agency Nueplex Cinemas posted on its fb page saying tickets already bought for the film can be refunded.

'Pari' is Sharma's 0.33 production undertaking.

last month, Pakistan banned Hindi movie 'Padman' - a film on menstrual hygiene, which starred Akshay Kumar - because it treated a "taboo challenge".

"We can not allow our film vendors to import films which are against our traditions and way of life," Federal Censor Board member Ishaq Ahmed said, stated PTI news organisation.

"We can't permit the screening of films on taboo topics in our cinemas as it isn't in our tradition, society or even faith," a member of thePunjab movie Censor Board said.