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By Rex Wockner
International News Report India: Officials Recertify 'Fire'--Lesbian-Themed Film
The lesbian-themed film Fire will return to Indian movie theaters
without any cuts, the Censor Board said February 14.
The film was recalled in December after radical members of the right-wing Shiv Sena party trashed at least 15 cinemas where it was playing. They ripped up posters and smashed furniture and snack counters. A party spokesman warned that theaters can look forward to more of the same. "Shiv Sena will launch popular agitation against cinemas which screen vulgar films," said Jai Bhagwan Goyal, the party's Delhi leader. "This is a well-planned conspiracy to destroy the Indian culture." The movie centers on two sisters-in-law who, unhappy in their marriages, fall in love with each other. It has won 14 awards in international film festivals. Canadian Supreme Court to Rule on Gay Erotica
The B.C. Supreme Court ruled in 1996 that Customs had discriminated against homosexuals in violation of the equality and freedom-of-expression provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by routinely singling out gay porn for confiscation. |
