The Bombay High Court on June 18 said it watched actor Annu Kapoor-starrer “Hamare Baarah” movie and found nothing objectionable in it that was against the Quran or the Muslim community, and observed that the film is in fact aimed at the upliftment of women.
It also said that the Indian public was “not gullible or silly”.
A division bench of Justices BP Colabawalla and Firdosh Pooniwalla said the film’s first trailer was objectionable, but that has been removed and all such objectionable scenes have been deleted from the movie.
The court noted that it was in fact a “thinking movie” and not the sort where the audience is expected to “keep their brains at home” and only enjoy it.
“The movie is in fact for the upliftment of women. The movie has a Maulana misinterpreting the Quran and in fact one Muslim man objects to the same in the scene. So this shows that people should apply their mind and not blindly follow such Maulanas,” the high court said. A bunch of petitions were filed in the high court earlier this month seeking a ban on the movie claiming that it was derogatory towards the Muslim community and had distorted what the Quran says.
While initially the high court postponed the release of the movie, it later permitted the release after the makers said the objectionable portions would be deleted as directed by the Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC). Source: PTI