Kuwait bans the upcoming Tamil Indian movie, Beast, for allegedly portraying Muslims as terrorists. The movie has been banned by Kuwait’s Ministry of Information. Critics believe that the film has allegedly been banned for anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan content.
According to media reports, the censor board of Kuwait strictly monitors the content of the movie and does not allow content that does not align with foreign and national interests.
According to Bollywood Hungama, a source revealed that “Vijay’s character in Beast gets into a conflict with a high official of Pakistan. The censors in Kuwait were not happy with the propagation of anti-Pakistan sentiments by the makers. Since the sequence is crucial in the film, there was no way that it could be edited out. As a result, the Ministry of Information in the middle eastern country decided to not allow Beast a release.”
Vijay's #Beast Gets Banned in Kuwait.
— Madan Gowri (@madan3) April 5, 2022
This is not the first time any Bollywood movie has been banned in Kuwait. Films including ‘Kurup’ and FIR have been banned earlier in Kuwait.
Earlier, the movie ‘The Kashmir Files’ kicked up a storm in India, with several videos from theatres showing audiences chanting anti-Muslim slogans.
In one of the videos, a mob inside the theatre could be heard saying, “When Muslims will cut into pieces, they will call for a Hindu God, Ram!”
The Kashmir Files depicts the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley in the 1990s. It tells the fictional story of a university student who discovers his Kashmiri Hindu parents were killed by Islamist militants. But critics call the film exploitative, saying it’s careless with facts and Islamophobic. Reportedly, Muslims going to the theatres now stand the risk of mob violence amid calls for their extermination.
Pan World #Beast Banned in Kuwait 🇰🇼..!! 😂
— Rahman (@iamrahman_offl) April 5, 2022
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Even the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party weighed in on its behalf. Modi said films like ‘The Kashmir Files’ need to be made to bring out the truth before people.
But the loudest endorsements appear to be from BJP ministers. In a Tweet, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani urged people to watch the film “so that this history soaked in the blood of innocents may never repeat itself.”