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Shoot on Sight banned in Pakistan
25/ 9/2008
DIRECTOR Jagmohan Mundra's controversial film Shoot On Sight has been banned in Pakistan for portraying an actor from that country as a terrorist.
The movie is the first to deal with the shoot on sight policy issued after the 7/7suicide bombings on UK soil and depicts the climate of fear in post-7/7 London after the bombings irrevocably changed the city.
Mundra says he is not surprised by the ban.
He told news agencies: "Yes my film Shoot On Sight has been banned in Pakistan because Pakistani actor Mikaal Zulfikar who plays Zaheer, a terrorist, is shown to be from that country.
"In a dialogue between Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri, it is revealed that the character Zaheer is from Pakistan. The Pakistanis didn't like it," he said.
The controversial political thriller is based on the London Police’s order to shoot suspected terrorists following the July 7 London bombings and the film’s star cast includes Brian Cox (The Bourne Supremacy), Greta Scacchi (The Player), Naseeruddin Shah (Monsoon Wedding), Om Puri (East is East), Ralph Ineson (The Office) and Sadie Frost (Dracula).
This drama is the first cinema release to tackle the issue of suicide bombings in the UK and the country’s ongoing threat from home-grown terrorists linked to fundamentalist Islam.
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