Shah Rukh Khan’s Raees has been banned in Pakistan after the Censor Board found the content unsuitable for screening in the country. The content and theme was found to be objectionable as it shows muslims in bad light and undermines Islam.
“The portrayal of Muslims is negative and the film’s content undermines Islam, and a specific religious sect, portraying Muslims as criminals, wanted persons and terrorists” an official source in the censor board said.
The distributors of Raees, Hum Films had last week submitted the film to the censor board for clearance to release in the Pakistani cinema halls after the government allowed screening of Hindi films last week.
Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil and Hrithik Roshan’s Kaabil were the first two movies to release in the country after the ban last year.
“Raees will not release in Pakistan according to a decision taken by the censor board today. It shows Muslims in very negative light and could lead to reactions from different sects and it is unsuitable for public screening” a source told PTI.
this is totally nonsense, movie is
combination Romance Revenge
Hero is picture of good and evil in
but that all for entertaining it has
nothing to do such they are thinking.
Im bitterly disappointed at this decision
Im super annoyed at The Paki Senseless Boards decision to not allow their own krapgiri film to release in their village halls etc etc bcoz our own Hindi Senseless Board allowed this foreign film (Shootout At Paglapur) to release in India thus torture our audiences…!
This is good news but i have question – does birth in muslim family make anyone muslim?
So now No Salman fan can say SRK is a pak lover.see, Raees is banned in Pakistan despite lead actress is from their country.I think it will not make any difference whether it releases in Pakistan or not.As every Film of SRK performed very well in overseas.
Whatever happens we are with srk
NOW i got the real context why pak banned raees….raees gives a message that dont differenciate between hindu muslim ..but..they dont want unity between hindu muslim in pak….and in raees …he said “begunaho ko maarne se jannat naseeb nahi hoti” to terrorist but pak gov dont wanna show this message to their people beacuse they will start hating their own terrorist.pak is full of terrorist and orthodox fanatics thats why they put ban on raees.because muslims from all over world dont have any problem with the movie …even so many pakistani people have already watched movie…
Pakistani actor’s movie is banned in Pakistan! #Shocking!!!
On serious note…. WTH they’ve found anti Islamic in the movie??? Seriously, this country is the biggest shitt in the world.
@Roshan
You idiot shut your mouth there are many Pakistani saints who are hindus and are followed by many in India.So watch your words!
@pungistani debate champion
Is everything alright??? Tell us something about youngistanis like Varun Sharma, Jackie Bhagnani, Arjun Kapur, Vivaan Shah etc!!!
No need to release bollywood movie in Pakistan.
Pakistan talk about terrorist in Raees movie. ..
But they have live terrorist in Pakistan.
Poor country deserves poor films like kaabil !! They cant afford tickets of Raees and they dont deserve the masterpiece Raees !! Ab takla pakistan me bhi 100 crore kar dega !! Pakistani people dont want their kids to become just a don they want real terrorists !! Thats why they banned raees !! Thank you !! Btw it doesnt matter to srk !! Raees has beaten kaabil very badly in this clash !! God bless haters !!
WTF ?? There is nothing against Islam in Raees. I being a muslim can assure anyone on that, There will be bad and good people in every community and in Raees’ profession is bootlegger but as a person he is good hearted and help people from all communities. I guess Pak censor board could not digest Raees helping hindus and refusing to stop help to them during curfew with punch line ‘Main dharam ka dhanda nahi karta’ !!!!!!!!
Epic shame for people like @Javed who was so desperately waiting for Raees to release in Pak.
People in Pakistan are good but government, management and every bureaucrat is selfish or extremist.
Indicine post the article of Tubelight.
Kabir Said its 5 times better than bajarangi
Bollywood should have to take action against Pakistan censor board they have to ask to Pakistan.
Pakistan should be thankful for India that we are agree to release our movie in Pakistan and if you want to ban any of our movie then we won’t allow any movie of us to release in Pakistan.
People may find it dumb but it’s actually a very good and logical decision.
This should’ve been happened in India.
Its Not only criminalization of Muslims but also glorifying a terrorist (Abdul latif)
Good move
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we were only waiting for kaabil dont not care about raees the most pathetic movie and just watched kaabil and it was awesome
I always use to laugh at pakaistanies for banning movies in Pakistan for silly reasons ..
But this time I agree . This movie should be banned in Pakistan if relgions concerned ! .
Because in Islam there is no business bigger than relgion . And the message of this movie is dhande see Bada koi dharm nahi!
And he was selling alcohol Which is not allowed in Islam and basically saying this is bigger than islam ..
I am not saying this because I am a Muslim.
But there is a limit to everything.
This was too much and unacceptable
and I don’t know how the Muslims loved this movie in india!! They can’t see it!
This movie is nor good for Muslims.. at all
Second reason .. Pakistan saved Thier people from the torture by watching the garbage movie ..
Waiting for jolly llb to enjoy .
Save us akshay . Two weeks of nonsense bo reports and garbage movie
What’s wrong with these Pakis?
Salman portrayed Hindu character in BB no single Hindu said anything wrong so can’t they understand these are all entertainers?
Beside @aisha welcome dear Sorry for what happened my deep condolence to your family. Missed your write ups
This is actually helpful
India should impose permanent ban on pakistani artists, films and television for good.
If they have trouble such insensitive RAEES which promotes hardwork even if the work is illegal. Rising above communalism even during religous riots. Owning up your wrong deeds even if it happens due to your own negligiance.
Pakistan music, films, tv and anything remotely pakistani must be banned in India for good.
The film released in India and out of the millions and millions of muslims in India…no one raised an objection.
The film also released in the Gulf regions, out of the millions and millions of muslims there, no one raised an eyebrow.
The film released globally and millions of muslims watched it from Australia to North America, UK, Europe, Singapore, Malaysia, and in every other country that it released, a gaurantee you muslims watched it, yet NO ONE raised any objections. What makes Pakistani Muslims any different to find something wrong or objectionable in this film to then protest…..? There is enough already wrong in Pakistan, go protest about that.
@ indicine the think is websites like you don’t have any source who can calculated business producers are the only one who can have the right figures for example you and bolly arena showing same collection less than producer but bollyarena said it was 25% occupancy for kaabil in morning show on 1st day and 45% in noon show and and they collection was around 10cr and the exactly showed the same figure for second Sunday and it collected 11cr something so but they showed 4cr something and how can movie collect the half of amount then the first day with same occupancy and 200 more screens get a life indicine and all other websites who think that they have right source even the case for raees is same the producers are right
There is nothing wrong in Movie. There is good and Bad People in Every religion and every where. It’s doesn’t mean that if there is some people are not good means all are bad. Same thing showing in Raees. Good people and Bad People everywhere in every religion.
Firstly Pakistan must be stop doing Acting. Whole world knows what is going in Pakistan.
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I just saw some rude comments here about Pakistan. See, it was not a decision taken by general public in Pakistan or by Mahira Khan. Pakistanis love Indian films and they love SRK. Pakistanis would be feeling as bad as anyone in India because of this ban on Raees.
There are good and bad people everywhere, can we just forget and focus on new things to come. Even if the governments announce a war tomorrow, I’d still hangout with my Indian friends and continue respecting India as a country, as an economy and as a democracy. We have similar cultures, colours, festivals, and we belong to the same ancestors. Ghalt humaari govts aur media bolty hain, hum kyun larty hain?
@indicine last I ch3cked, writing rubbish and targeting countries wasn’t allowed in your comment section when someone did to India, but you are very happily allowing anti Pakistan comments to be shown..WTF is the use of your moderation when you allow politically incorrect words such as retarded be used and allow bullying to take place on minor and major levels..?? Please recheck your system..as there must be something terribly wrong..
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THAT WAS RIGHT I THINK SO… HAHAHAHA
Hahahaha……….what a bunch of losers.