Pathan pulling crowds in HP Theatres
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Shimla, Jan 28 – Amid nationwide protest by right-wing organizations on the fourth day of the release of Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone’s Pathan film was drawing crowds as it was screened in all the major theatres of Himachal Pradesh.
People who watched the ‘Pathan’ at Ayaan CinemasTutikandi ISBT Shimla said the house was booked to its full capacity on Friday.
In others theatres of the state, Pathan has been screened in Dharmshala and Palampur Cinema halls and also recorded good footfalls during the last three days. With the change in power in the state government, there are minor voices against the screening of the film as calls of Protest drew a negligible response in the state. In a major development, the state-left affiliated Student Federation of India decided to screen a BBC documentary on Modi on Godhara riots today at the Himachal Pradesh University campus after the government of India curbed its screening in the country enacted an emergency clause to allow its release in India.
The BBC documentary is already available on Social media platforms, however, the Government of India has announced to ban on it. Social media platforms didn’t respond to the directions of the union government and with a screening of documentaries at many universities campus including JNU and Hyderabad University. In non -BJP ruled states, there is hardly any response to the call of such pro-rightest protest in both films.
In last year’s Assembly Election Congress, the government got a thumping majority in Himachal Pradesh. New Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu termed this victory a major defeat of pro-Hindu Political outfits despite the state having around 97 percent Hindu population. Rahul Gandhi Bharat Jodo Yatra also entered Himachal Pradesh which crossed Indora Assembly Constituency and Nadaun Assembly.
Interestingly, the Rahul Gandhi Yatra was organised in religious polarized Assembly Constituency Indora as riots also broke out among minority and majority community few years ago on a land dispute.
