Legal battle for Mangal Pandey now 
By IndiaFM News Bureau, August 16, 2005 - 04:27 IST
Aamir Khan’s film Mangal Pandey opened to packed houses across the country. But ironically the screening in Pandey’s home district Ballia came to a standstill. Members from the Mangal Pandey Memorial Committee were angry for the fact that the movie did not even mention the name of Pandey’s native village of Nagwan in Ballia where he was born. A legal notice has also been sent to the director Ketan Mehta and producer Bobby Bedi on the grounds that they had promised to shoot the film in Nagwan but backtracked from their assurance. The filmmakers in turn claimed that Nagwan had little to do with the movie.
The members of the committee have also filed a public interest litigation in the Allahabad Court against the screening of the film Mangal Pandey. The agitated committee members halted the screening of the film in the Vijay cinema in Nagwan. They even damaged a shop selling audio cassettes and CD’s of Mangal Pandey and stalled a good trains heading towards Chhapra for half an hour.
That apart, other political parties like the BJP, RSS and Shiv Sena have also demanded a ban on the film claiming that Mangal Pandey has been portrayed as a womanizer in the film.
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