Mumbai, May 16: Authorities here stopped the shooting of a Hindi film starring Kangana Ranaut, Jimmy Shergill and R Madhavan in the premises of a mosque following strong protests by members of Muslim community for allegedly hurting their religious sentiments.
The film “Tanu weds Manu”, a love story, is being directed by Anand Malhotra and produced by Shailesh Singh.
The members of the Muslim community assembled in the famous Moorish mosque, a national heritage site, last night when they noticed that crew members of the film had erected a set in the mosque premises to shoot a scene of the film.
They lodged a strong protest there and asked the producer to show the permission of the administration to shoot the film in the premises of the mosque.Kangana Ranaut’s latest project was stopped mid-shoot by protesters who were angry about the decision to film a scene inside a mosque.
Tanu Weds Manu is a comedy set in the Punjab, which co-stars multilingual actor Madhavan.
A source told the site: “Members of the film unit had started installing the sets inside the mosque [on] Friday night.
“On seeing this, members of [the] Muslim community gathered outside the mosque and started raising slogans against the administration and the filmmakers.
“They threatened to interrupt the shooting as it would allegedly affect their religious sentiments.”
-PTI