When no filmmaker would dare think about it, URI was set to be screened in Pakistan
Bollywood blockbuster Uri, starring Vicky Kaushal in the lead role and Yami Gautam, Mohit Raina and Kirti Kulhari in pivotal roles, has not yet been imported for screening purposes by any importer in Pakistan, confirmed Pakistan’s Chairman Central Censor Board, Danyal Gillani to WION.
Uri, which talks about the surgical strikes which India carried out in Pakistan’s territory in September 2016. The much talked about movie has been making headlines in the Indian cinema however no importer as yet has had the thought of getting the movie to Pakistan and get it screened to the Pakistani audience.
Speaking to WION, Central Chairman of Pakistan’s Film Censor Board, Danyal Gillani said, “So far no importer has applied for an NoC for the feature film. As per procedure, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting gives NoC to all the foreign feature films followed by Censor Board’s preview for grant of public viewership certificate”.
Sources told WION that once the movie is imported, it goes to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for an NOC, if it manages to get an NOC on the import, then the censor board screens it and if at all there are any corrections, they're done and in case if there are not any changes, then post the censor boards clearance its released but all this comes into action post import which till now, no movie importer has done so in Pakistan.
In the past, Pakistan has released some Indian movies that have been critical of Pakistan after some editing and omissions as raised by the censor board.
Since 2006 to Date, Pakistan has barred the screening of 29 Indian movies in Pakistan. In 2018 let alone Pakistan had banned 6 bollywood films from being screened in country after the country’s censor board did not approve of the content, however in the case of Uri there is no ban that is in place since the movie is yet to be imported for screening purposes in Pakistan.
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