ALAPPUZHA: The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) refused to give no objection certificates to two films -Anwar Rasheed's 'Ustad Hotel' and M A Nishad's 'No 66 Madhura Bus'.
The AWBI refused to give NOC to these films
following the complaints filed by Heritage Animal Task Force (HATF), an
animal lovers' forum with the AWBI. It will adversely affect the release of these two Malayalam films.
"The directors of these two films used animals in their films without
the pre-shoot permission of the AWBI. As per the Performing Animals
(Registration) Rules, 2001, shooting with animals should be undertaken
only after getting pre-shoot permission from AWBI," said V K
Venkitachalam, secretary of HATF.
In the film 'Ustad Hotel', director Anward Rasheed used a camel in a song scene without the permission of the AWBI.
When HATF lodged a complaint with the AWBI in this connection, the
director and the producer of the film approached the AWBI for its
permission. However, the AWBI refused to give the NOC saying that using
camel in Kerala for films could not be permitted because a camel cannot
live in Kerala due to the climate here.
However, Anwar Rasheed
told TOI that the film would be released on June 29 at any cost and
they did not have any plan to remove the scene in which a camel was
used.
The film 'Ustad Hotel' stars Dulquar Salman, Nitya Menon and Thilakan among others.
"People and media with some vested interests are trying to stop the
release of my film. Now there is no problem for the release of my film
and it will be released on June 29," he said.
M A Nishad has also used a captive elephant in the film without the pre-shoot certificate from the board.
Following this, the AWBI refused to issue NOC and directed M A Nishad
and the film's producer to produce the ownership certificate of the
elephant from the wildlife department.
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