A Pune-based Hindu outfit, Hindu Mahasangh, has written to the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), seeking a ban on Marathi film Khalid Ka Shivaji, which is scheduled for release on August 8. The organisation has submitted its objections to the CBFC and the film’s producers.
“The film attempts to distort the history of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The producers have portrayed him as secular, which is not acceptable,” the Hindu Mahasangh chairman, Anand Dave, said in a statement.