{"id":43252,"date":"2016-06-02T18:55:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=43252"},"modified":"2016-06-03T04:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T23:06:17","slug":"pil-bollywood-movie-shorgul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pil-bollywood-movie-shorgul","title":{"rendered":"PIL against Bollywood movie &#8216;Shorgul&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43253\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Shorgul.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43253\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pil-bollywood-movie-shorgul\/shorgul\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Shorgul.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shorgul\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Shorgul.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Shorgul.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-43253 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Shorgul.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"PIL against Bollywood movie 'Shorgul'\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Shorgul.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Shorgul.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Shorgul.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Shorgul.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PIL against Bollywood movie &#8216;Shorgul&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A petition seeking stay on the release on Bollywood\u00a0movie &#8216;Shorgul&#8217; was today filed before the AllahabadHigh Court bench here alleging certain scenes in it threatened to disturb social harmony.<\/p>\n<p>The PIL was filed by a Meerut social worker Milan Som who sought a stay on the movie scheduled to be released on June 24.<\/p>\n<p>According to petitioner&#8217;s counsel Digvijay Nath Dubey, certain scenes in the film were highly objectionable and threatened to disturb social harmony.<\/p>\n<p>The movie, featuring Jimmy Shergill and Ashutosh Rana in lead roles, is based on friendship between a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl that snowballs into a political issue leading to unrest and chaos in society.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Shorgul&#8217; has been shot in the backdrop of Muzaffarnagar communal riots in Uttar Pradesh in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A petition seeking stay on the release on Bollywood\u00a0movie &#8216;Shorgul&#8217; was today filed before the AllahabadHigh Court bench here alleging certain scenes in it threatened to disturb social harmony. 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