Film based on the real-life hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi in 1986
A week ahead of the UAE release of the Sonam Kapoor-starrer ‘Neerja’, it has been reported that Pakistan has banned the film from screening in the country.
The film is based on the 1986 hijacking of Pan Am flight 73 at Karachi Airport, where airline purser Neerja Bhanot was shot dead by terrorists while trying to save the lives of passengers on board.
While no official word has been given on the reason behind the ban, media reports suggests authorities in Pakistan objected to film showing the country in poor light.
Bhanot received Pakistan’s ‘Tamgha-e-Insaaniyat’ award posthumously for showing incredible human kindness, along with becoming the youngest recipient of India’s highest peacetime military award for bravery, the Ashok Chakra.
News wire PTI further reported the film was banned in Pakistan without even being submitted to the censor boards.
Mobasher Hasan, who heads the Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC), said that the decision to not allow import of the film had come from the information and commerce ministry
IMGC Executive Director Abid Rasheed admitted that there were certain anti-Pakistan elements in Neerja and it showed Muslims in negative light.
"This might not have gone down well with local audiences," he speculated.
Pakistan had earlier banned big banner Indian films like Haider (2015), Phantom(2015) and Ek Tha Tiger (2012).
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