Movies in Pakistan must be cleared by provincial boards that censor something deemed a violation of the nation’s social and cultural values.
By:
Mohnish Singh
The discharge of the much-anticipated Hollywood Barbie movie was delayed in Pakistan’s Punjab province Friday over “objectionable content material,” officers stated.
Movies in Pakistan must be cleared by provincial boards that censor something deemed a violation of the nation’s social and cultural values.
“There can be a full evaluation of the movie, and it is going to be censored the place deemed obligatory,” Farrukh Mahmood, secretary of the Punjab Movie Censor Board, informed AFP.
He stated that the fantasy-comedy movie, which stars Margot Robbie because the well-known doll and Ryan Gosling as her boyfriend Ken, can be cleared for screening as soon as the evaluation and censoring course of is full.
The board didn’t make clear which content material was “objectionable,” nor why.
Whereas followers in Pakistan’s most populous province must wait to observe “Barbie,” the movie was attributable to be screened from Friday within the capital Islamabad and the southern province of Sindh, the place it was cleared by the respective censor boards.
“I’ve been trying ahead to watching Barbie for months. It is unnecessary that it’s okay to be proven in Karachi or Islamabad, however not Lahore,” Nousheen Saad, a resident of Punjab’s capital metropolis of Lahore informed AFP.
