Amid protests over its screening, Anupam Kher's The Accidental Prime Minister now leaked online
Mumbai, Jan 12 (IBNS): Amid protests over its screening in certain cities across India on Friday, a piracy site Tamilrockers has released Bollywood movie The Accidental Prime Minister online.
The movie is based on the tenure of former Indian PM Manmohan Singh.
A pirated copy of the film was leaked online now, adding more troubles for the film that features actor Anupam Kher in the lead role.
Kher is playing the character of Singh in the film.
The recently released Petta and Viswasam have also been leaked on Tamilrockers, reported The Indian Express.
Despite all these issues, the movie has earned Rs. 4.5 crores on an opening day.
Kher appealed people to stop people who are engaging in violence over the screening of the film.
"An appeal to the authorities to stop a section of people who are indulging in acts of violence & hooliganism during the screening of our film #TheAccidentalPrimeMinister. Also a call out to other section of people who believe in selective outrage towards #FreedomOfExpression," he tweeted.
An appeal to the authorities to stop a section of people who are indulging in acts of violence & hooliganism during the screening of our film #TheAccidentalPrimeMinister. Also a call out to other section of people who believe in selective outrage towards #FreedomOfExpression.🙠pic.twitter.com/ULgSPj2H5l
— Anupam Kher (@AnupamPKher) January 12, 2019
Youth Congress activists targeted two Kolkata cinema halls during the screening of The Accidental Prime Minister.
After the 1 hour 50 minutes long political drama was released in a large number of theatres throughout India on Friday, Congress workers staged demonstration in front of several movie theatres in different states, including West Bengal, and the protests led to suspending the screening of the film at those cinema halls.
Two multiplexes in Kolkata and another cinema hall in northern region's Siliguri on Friday witnessed agitation and vandalism during the screening of The Accidental Prime Minister.
A large number of Youth Congress workers staged a big agitation in front of Inox Hind cinema hall in central Kolkata's Ganesh Chandra Avenue in the morning when The Accidental Prime Minister's first day first show just began there.
Besides burning an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress protesters tried to enter the theatre.
A heavy police force rushed to the scene to bring the situation under control and citing security concern of the spectators present inside the hall, the theatre's authority had to stop the screening immediately, just 10 minutes after it started.
Nearly 10 hours after the incident, Youth Congress supporters with flags and slogans attacked south Kolkata's posh movie theatre Inox Insignia located at Quest Mall near Ballygunge area at around 8:30 pm.
After reaching the screening area, agitators reportedly tore apart the screen and asked people to leave the theatre immediately.
Mall's security guards rushed to the scene and they took all demonstrators out of the cinema hall.
Due to the incident, spectators had to watch the entire movie on a torn screen.
Meanwhile, a large number of Congress workers stormed into a single-screen theatre at Pradhan Nagar area in Siliguri city of north Bengal and besides tearing of The Accidental Prime Minister's posters, they tried to vandalize the hall.
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