After walking Cannes red carpet and giving a talk at Oxford
university on gender, Mallika Sherawat is back to doing what she is best
at - controversy.
In a recently released poster of Mallika's
forthcoming film Dirty Politics, she is seen draped only in the
tricolour and this is going to raise a lot of eyebrows in the country.
First poster of Dirty Politics
Director KC Bokadia is already facing pressure from a political party to change the poster.
"Workers
of a political party from Rajasthan are putting pressure on me to
change the tricolour into some other scrap of fabric," he told a leading
daily.
Mallika is shown sitting on the top of an Ambassador with a
beacon draped in tri-clour with a CD in her hand. In the background,
Rajasthan Assembly can be seen.
The film is reportedly based on
Jodhpur's Bhanwari Devi sex scandal and Bokadia clarifies, "It has
nothing to do with tricolour, nor is it any political party's symbol.
Also, there is no Ashoka Chakra, so essentially, it is just a piece of
cloth in three different colours."
He further added, "Sincerely, I
don't want to earn the displeasure of any political party. I have
always maintained that I can be an admirer of one party, but I do not
belong to any party. I am just a filmmaker and using my creativity to
put forth my point of view. As far as guidelines are concerned, the
poster will be censored according Indian Motion Picture Producers
Association guidelines. So, I don't know why I am being asked by this
political party to change it."
Mallika Sherawat is playing the
role of Bhanwari Devi in the film, which also stars Om Puri, Naseeruddin
Shah, Anupam Kher, Jackie Shroff, Govind Namdev, Ashutosh Rana and
Rajpal Yadav.
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