After a city-based social organisation threatened to protest against the upcoming MAMI Mumbai Film Festival for screening Pakistani film ‘Jago Hua Savera’, the organisers have decided not to showcase the movie.
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The outfit, Sangharsh, had accused the organisers of playing with the nationalist sentiment of the people of India, at a time when the tension between India and Pakistan is it its peak.
They had also sought police permission to protest the screening of the 1958 Pakistani film at the 18th Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star, which begins from 20 October.
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