Debutante filmmaker Sohan Roy, whose film Dam 999 has triggered a political storm in Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking removal of the ban on his movie in the state.
Three songs from the film have been singled out for the Original Song category.
DAM 999 will enter the library even before its theatrical release later this month.
Rupesh Paul, whose musical has been long-listed for the 2012 Academy Awards, talks about his film.
Director Sohan Roy talks about the ban imposed by Tamil Nadu government on his film.
Sohan Roy on helming a Hollywood film in India.
Brajkishore Gupta was fired without notice for calling Indian Muslims 'coronavirus spreaders' and hailing the Delhi riots as 'divine justice' in his Facebook posts, the Gulf News reported.
The new sackings and suspensions come days after both the former and current Indian Ambassadors to the UAE cautioned their countrymen about the UAE's strict hate speech laws.
Ambassador of India to the UAE Pavan Kapoor quoted a tweet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who said that COVID-19 does not see race, religion, colour, caste, creed, language or borders before striking.
'Thanks to Mamata's shameless way of wooing Muslims, Hindus in large numbers have started aligning with us,' says Bengal's BJP boss Dilip Ghosh.
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