Mumbai, India -
Hindu nationalists tore posters and stoned in cinemas to prevent Friday premiere of the film leading Bollywood sensation Shah Rukh Khan, because he freshly talked in endure of Pakistani cricketers, police said. More than 21,000 police kept more than 60 theaters in Mumbai, the entertainment capital of India. Initially, only two multiplexes exhibited the first exhibition of the film and the rest answered to a boycott addressed by Shiv Sena, a Mumbai-centered governmental party acknowledged for regional chauvinism and Hindu fundamentalism.However, most theaters in the screening of the film started late Friday, said Himanshu Roy, deputy police commissioner. Nearly 150 Shiv Sena workers threw stones and even tried to make their way inside some theaters, but police detained the protesters, said Roy. His strengths in Mumbai, workers have also forced businesses to close. Police arrested at least 49 protesters, Roy told The Associated Press.
Shiv Sena - which means Army of Shiva - a brand Khan, a traitor for having complained that none of the cricketers of India's rival Pakistan have been selected to participate in next month's tournament Indian Premier League Twenty20.The part will allow projections after Khan apologizes, "told Manohar Joshi, an older Shiv Sena, who headed a group of supporters in a theater.
Khan, who is a Muslim, said he hurt the reaction, and just wants to show the movie.
"I want everyone to be happy when they see my films and I will arrange for the time I return to India, everyone is happy," Khan told a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival, where "My Name Is Khan" was displayed out from challenger."I very worried and scared and emotionally hurt, when things are happening, and I have no problem with meeting people who talk to them and say, 'Look, it's only a movie, enjoy a good laugh and have fun," Khan said."I have no ideological problem with someone in this world. I'm just a player," he said. "I am truly sorry if anyone gets hurt I'm not in the business of doing harm. - I'm in business to make people happy."Advertising"There will always be ideologies that stand out, cinema, theater, in real life, attitude, and we must all accept it, and we all have to live with it and live in peace," said Khan."My name is Khan", which opened across India on Friday, is located in the U.S. behind 9 / 11 attacks and traces the path of a Muslim man who suffers from Asperger's syndrome. Police officer Roy told more than 1,100 Hindoo nationalists have been arrested this week in Mumbai to try to avoid disruption to the films. Fearing violence, many theaters stopped selling tickets in advance.
