India’s Central Board of Film Certification (Cbfc) has “advised changes” to Yash Raj Films’ “Pathaan,” the comeback film of superstar Shah Rukh Khan that also stars Deepika Padukone and John Abraham.Controversy erupted in India on Dec.
12 when the song “Besharam Rang” – literally shameless color – was released.
A segment of the song features Padukone in orange colored swimwear and Khan in a green shirt.
Some saw the color orange as saffron – the color associated with India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party, the Bjp.
Green is the color traditionally associated with Islam.
India has had a long history of communal clashes between the two religions.On Dec.
14, Narottam Mishra, the home minister of the Bjp-ruled central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, told the media that the costumes in the song were “objectionable” and that it had been shot with “a dirty mindset” and warned that the film could be banned in the state.
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