The pe­ti­tion filed by ac­tivist lawyer Am­rit­pal Singh against the ob­jec­tion­able scene in Shah Rukh Khan’s Zero will come up for a pre-ad­mis­sion hear­ing in the Mum­bai High Court on 30 No­vem­ber, when the CBFC is ex­pected to ei­ther file a re­ply or ac­cept the ob­jec­tion and re­move the scene where Shah Rukh Khan is wear­ing Kir­pan -the Sikh faith sym­bol. 

The com­plaint filed by Singh Sabha Mum­bai with the Cen­tral Board of Film Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is also pend­ing with the body and so far they have not re­sponded in any man­ner. 

While Sikh cir­cles in Pun­jab and Delhi are quiet on the sub­ject and the first com­plainant in the mat­ter Delhi MLA Man­jin­der Singh has “ac­cepted” the ex­pla­na­tion of the Zero film-mak­ers, young Ad­vo­cate Am­rit­pal Singh has re­mained stead­fast and pur­sued the mat­ter in the Bom­bay High Court.

It is likely that all 10 re­spon­dents, in­clud­ing the hero, the pro­duc­ers and di­rec­tor of the movie, as well as chan­nels who are broad­cast­ing the trailer and show­ing slides of the im­pugned poster will file their writ­ten replies on the the date or their coun­sels will ap­pear in per­son.

Speak­ing ex­clu­sively to World Sikh News, pe­ti­tioner Am­rit­pal Singh said, “The mat­ter is sub­ju­dice, let us see how the re­spon­dents re­act and re­ply on the date of hear­ing.” He fur­ther clar­i­fied that, “The Kir­pan scene must be deleted and Shah Rukh Khan and the mak­ers must apol­o­gize to the Sikh com­mu­nity for the hurt caused. Other than that, there are no is­sues.”

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The movie ZERO is slated for re­lease on 21 De­cem­ber and a huge amount of money is at stake. Film cir­cles are agog that Shah Rukh Khan can­not stake the suc­cess of his movie on an ab­solutely un­nec­es­sary scene and in all like­li­hood the pro­duc­ers would delete the scene. It is a wait and watch game for the mo­ment.

Mum­bai, 19 No­vem­ber 2018, WSN News Desk