Ahmedabad beats rowdy censor Sena, enjoys 'My Name Is Khan'
Cops crack down on hooligans at 2 theatres; Morning shows were scrapped; all well later.
On Friday, the dilemma about screening My Name is Khan had put Mumbai, the capital of India’s filmdom, on the edge. But everything was as smooth as a wedding scene in Ahmedabad, almost.
Unlike in Bollywood endings, Ahmedabad cops arrived in time to quell the villains, and Amdavadis enjoyed MNIK on Friday; but anxiety-ridden distributors in the city had not released prints for the morning shows. The distributors’ fears seemed justified because even before the first show was scheduled to begin, the police had to be called to rein in the disruptive censor sena at the Film Republic and City Gold.
The joint commissioner of police, sector 1, Satish Sharma, said that the police arrested 34 people and registered two complaints each at Navrangpura and Satellite police stations against those who had tried to target the cinemas.
Later, the Shah Rukh Khan starrer ran without a hitch, amid tight police security, at almost all city multiplexes. The police suspect that most of the protesters were from the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
The police say a Shiv Sena activists may have also been involved.