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Pak censors snip Feroz ‘RDX’ Khan out of Welcome

Army colonel on the board wanted Khan out as the actor has been blacklisted for voicing anti-Pak sentiments last year

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Army colonel on the board wanted Khan out as the actor has been blacklisted for voicing anti-Pak sentiments last year

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has allowed the screening of yet another Bollywood film Welcome but only with all the scenes featuring Feroz Khan cut out! The veteran actor was blacklisted for voicing anti-Pakistan sentiments during his last visit in April 2007. He is also banned from entering that country.

The Pakistani Film Censor Board had almost cleared the movie without cuts for display in cinemas across the country from February 8 when the Army representative on the board objected to Khan’s presence.

He plays RDX, the gangster boss of the two funny rogues, and makes an appearance only in the second half. But he is key to the climactic scenes and also fills the screen in an item song.

The distributor of Welcome  in Pakistan, Jamshed Zafar  who is also acting president of
the film producers association, told DNA that the Army representative, a Colonel, was not for Khan’s images appearing in Pakistani cinemas.

Zafar was in a dilemma. He could screen the movie after cutting out Feroz Khan altogether —which would mean clipping off about an hour of the movie and deleting some of the most hilarious scenes, the ‘item’ song, and the climax. Or he could forget about it all together.

The movie is all set to be screened in various cities of Punjab province  — Metropole, Plaza, SozoWorld, and DHA cinemas of Lahore; PAF and Cineplex cinemas of Rawalpindi; Dreamland and Rex in Multan; Prince and Zinco Palace in Gujranwala; Faisal Cinema in Gujrat; and Shama in Sialkot.

Just last month, the Pakistan government bowing to pressure from film distributors had decided to allow regular screening of Indian films in the country’s  theatres, whose number had come down to just 200 from 1,400 in the 1980s.

Screening of Indian movies was banned from September 1965, when Indian and Pakistan fought their second war.
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