Kites actuality disrupted in Chennai theatres

When Hrithik Roshan landed in Colombo aftermost week, he had no clue that his accord in the IIFA bright would advance to screening of his just-released cine Kites actuality disrupted in Chennai theatres. The amateur was visibly agitated back the account accomplished him in Colombo aftermost Sunday. He acicular out that they were there on account of the Indian blur industry, and so should be supported.

Earlier, afflicted with the Bollywood stars for aerial bottomward to Sri Lanka and thereby betraying innocent Tamilians who had been dead in ample numbers during aftermost year's civilian war, the South Indian Blur Chamber of Commerce (SIFCC) had registered its able beef and alike threatened to ban their accessible releases. However, L Suresh, accepted secretary of SIFCC, asserts that his organisation had annihilation to do with the disruption of Kites' screenings. "Certain political parties had accounting to the theatres and what happened was spearheaded by them," he asserts. "We accept not approved any ban on Kites or any added blur or actor. I've batten to Amit Khanna of Reliance Big Entertainment and antiseptic our stand."

Too backward to change

But Suresh, forth with C Kalyan, President of the Chamber, and G Siva, accepted secretary of the Blur Employees Federation of South India (FEFSI), had appear to Mumbai aftermost ages to argue his counterparts in the burghal adjoin visiting Lanka for the IIFA weekend in June.

The leash met Manmohan Shetty, President of Blur and Television Producers Guild, filmmakers Yash Chopra, Ramesh Sippy and JP Dutta, blur financier Ratan Jain, and admiral of Wizcraft, who were organising the IIFA events, forth with added Bollywood personalities on the IIFA advising board. Suresh says that while all of them sympathised with the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils, they insisted that it was too backward to about-face the venue, as "they were apprenticed by acknowledged obligations".

He insists that they did try to put beyond their point of appearance that admitting slaughtering innocent Tamilians, the Lankan government was aggravating to advance the delusion that all is well: "We articular this was not the time to do a appearance like IIFA and appearance our adherence with our neighbouring country."

When Bollywood angry a deafened ear to their pleas, the SIFCC threatened a avoid of Bollywood movies featuring any brilliant who had been a allotment of IIFA. However, Suresh hastens to add that the Chamber is yet to adjudge on its abutting advance of action.

Would Raajneeti be targetted abutting because Ranbir Kapoor and Arjun Rampal had aureate to Colombo? He says, "We don't appetite to add ammunition to the fire. There's no added big blur absolution this Friday and abutting week's absolution is Raavan. None of the casting and aggregation abounding IIFA so we are in no bustle to adjudge on our abutting move. As and back the Chamber does, we will accomplish a academic announcement."