Author: HT Correspondent
Publication: Hindustan Times, New
Delhi
Date: June 25, 2001
The All-India Muslim Personal Law
Board (AIMPLB) will decide whether the agitation against the film Gadar
is justified. AIMPLB vice-president Maulana Kalbe Sadiq said on Saturday
that the board would take a decision about the 'objectionable scenes and
dialogues' in the film after consultations with the AIMPLB president, Maulana
Mujahidul Islam Qasmi.
Sadiq was upset that his name was
included in the film's credit sequence without his permission. He said
that a decision on taking legal action against the film's producers would
be taken after consulting Qasmi.
"I have not seen the movie. But
judging from what I have been told by some responsible members of the community
who have seen the film, it appears that the producers have retained certain
dialogues and scenes which they were told to omit," he said.
Sadiq said he was told that there
was a scene in the film in which the hero was compelled to chant 'Hindustan
murdabad, before being converted to Islam. "There is no stipulation in
the tenets of (Islam) to say anything for or against a country," he said.
"I had also told the producers to
change the name of the heroine, because the name Sakina has a special significance
in the religion. But they did not heed this suggestion," Sadiq said.
