From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji
Panaji, Apr 13: The promos of Rohan Sippy's forthcoming flick on Goa, Dum Maro Dum, were shown to the Bombay High Court at Goa today. The court has fixed the arguments in the matter for next Monday, April 18.
The lawyer of Fox Star Studios India Private Limited (FSSIPL), which is the distributor for the movie, told the bench that they have changed the `objectionable’ dialogue in the movie, which had evoked strong reaction from women’s organisations.
A media professional, Savio Rodrigues, has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the court demanding to ban the release of the movie pleading that it portrayed Goa and its people in the wrong light.
Division bench comprising Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice S C Dharmadhikari, after watching the promos in the court hall on the laptop of one of the lawyer, fixed the hearing in the matter for Monday.
Winnie Coutinho, representing the petitioner, said that both the old promos with the objectionable taglines and new promos, doctored to delete the objectionable sentences, were shown to the bench.
The petitioner has now said that entire movie be screened before the division bench before its theatrical release scheduled somewhere end of this month.
FSSIPL representative Dina Duttani talking to reporters after the hearing has said that they have no issues in showing the entire movie to the division bench. “There is nothing in the movie that spells disrespect for the Goans,” she said.
Duttani admitted that the part of the objectionable dialogue have been deleted from the film. But she rubbished the claim that they have changed the promos fearing court case.
“The promos always change whenever movie is nearing its release. Now the promos speak of the story line,” Duttani, who heads FSSIPL’s Business and legal section, said.
In the affidavit filed before the bench, FSSIPL has said that the film is a fictitious story about a drug mafia in Goa and its links with various foreign elements. “The story is essentially about how a minister in Goa directs an honest police officer to eradicate the drug mafia,” it adds.
The distributors have said that `there is nothing in the film which could be construed as depicting Goa or the people of Goa in a negative light.’