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Da Vinci Code gets a go-ahead

Sony Pictures, the distributor, is learnt to be working towards the film’s release on May 26, following talks with the CBFC.

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New Delhi: Da Vinci Code is all set to hit the Indian screens this Friday, after a week-long delay in the release of the controversial film. Sony Pictures, the distributor, is learnt to be working towards the film’s release on May 26, following talks with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).

The film will have a disclaimer at the beginning and end for 15 seconds each, stating that it is a work of fiction.

There seems to have been compromises on both sides, though. While Sony has agreed to insert a disclaimer before the film despite its resistance to the same earlier, CBFC has relaxed its rigid stand on the language of the disclaimer.

“The intention should be clear in the disclaimer that the film is a work of fiction,” said Censor Board official Vinayak Azad. Sources said the `legal card’, which is already there at the end of the film, is likely to be displayed before as well.

Last week, following consultations with members of the Christian community, the film certification board had asked Sony Pictures for a specific disclaimer stating that “the film is a work of pure fiction and has no correspondence to historical facts of the Christian religion”.

However, Sony resisted the move, saying that the film already includes a “legal card”. The legal card, at the end of the movie, states “the characters and incidents portrayed and the names herein are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely coincidental and unintentional”.

In an interview to a TV channel at the Cannes film festival, director of the film Ron Howard had reasoned why he resisted disclaimers. “I just feel if the beginning of any sort of any mystery thriller comments on the reality of the story, you are surely undermining some of the entertainment value,” he said.

The film, based on the bestselling book of the same name by Dan Brown, will be released with an `adults only’ certification.

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