With just four days to go for MAMI Film Festival, organisers are facing threats of a disruption, if 1958 Pakistani film 'The Day Shall Dawn' is screened.
A still from The Day Shall Dawn
A still from 'The Day Shall Dawn'
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With just four days to go for the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) Film Festival, organisers are facing threats of a disruption, if 1958 Pakistani film 'The Day Shall Dawn' is screened.
Prithvi Maske, president of a local NGO Sangarsh Foundation, filed a complaint with Amboli police on Saturday, seeking ban on the Oscar nominated film's screening. In his complaint, Maske says, "Due to tension among Indians against Pakistan and Pakistanis after the Uri attacks, it [the film's screening] is likely to flare the outrage."
Maske asks "why MAMI organisers are showering so much love on Pakistanis" when film bodies have decided to ban Pakistani artistes in Bollywood and more recently, single screen theatres have also made it clear that they won't screen films featuring actors from across the border.
He also said his NGO will hold protests at an Andheri multiplex, one of the festival venues if the film was screened. As reported 'Unfazed by political tension' (hitlist, October 14), the bilingual movie is a semi documentary that sheds light on the quality of life in a small village in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Since the film was made before Bangladesh was formed in 1971, sources close to the organisers had raised questions over the film being targeted.
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