{"id":15496,"date":"2013-01-28T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=15496"},"modified":"2013-01-28T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:38:17","slug":"opposition-to-vishwaroopamfilm-spreads-to-keralaandhra-pradesh-and-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=15496","title":{"rendered":"Opposition to &#8220;Vishwaroopam&#8221;Film Spreads to Kerala,Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By a Special Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ban on actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan\u2019s magnum opus Vishwaroopam threatened to spread from Tamil Nadu to neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka on Friday, even while it ran in several screens in the smaller towns of Kerala. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIn Kerala, screening was stopped in several centres in the evening following protests. In Hyderabad, the morning screenings were not disturbed, but subsequent shows were interrupted. In Karnataka, distributors said the release had been put off until Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Hyderabad hinted that the movie might be allowed to release on Saturday. The reasons given for the postponement vary from ensuring safety during the Milad un-Nabi celebrations to security arrangements for the Republic Day.<\/p>\n<p>Theatre owners from three states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh \u2014 who had already sold tickets to the movie via advance bookings \u2014 started refunding the tickets to the audience. <\/p>\n<p>At the global level, the film opened in a record number of theatres in the United States and Malaysia, even while authorities in Sri Lanka ordered that the release be held back and called for a review by censors. <\/p>\n<p>The first flush of reviews and opinions on social networks \u2014 most notably in Twitter where the movie has been trending over the past few days \u2014 has been overwhelmingly positive, and the popular opinion seems to be that the movie does not denigrate any religious minority. The star\u2019s fans were left agitated, and they argued especially in online forums, on how they had been robbed of the opportunity to watch the \u2018first day, first show\u2019 of a film that has already been cleared by the Central Board of Film Certification.<\/p>\n<p>The national award-winning actor, who is currently in the U.S. where the Hindi and the Tamil versions premiered, found a major supporter in the Tamil film industry in \u2018Superstar\u2019 Rajinikanth, who appealed to his \u201cMuslim brothers\u201d to drop their demand for a complete ban on the movie, and instead hold talks with Mr. Haasan upon his return from the U.S., and find out an amicable way to release the movie.<em>COURTESY:THE HINDU<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton15496\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D15496&amp;text=Opposition%20to%20%26%238220%3BVishwaroopam%26%238221%3BFilm%20Spreads%20to%20Kerala%2CAndhra%20Pradesh%20and%20Karnataka&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By a Special Correspondent The ban on actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan\u2019s magnum opus Vishwaroopam threatened to spread from Tamil Nadu to neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka on Friday, even while it ran in several screens in the smaller towns of Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15497,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496\/revisions\/15497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}