Addressing a press conference here, Congress spokesperson and legislator Reginaldo Lourenco said that a first information report (FIR) can be filed against Kapoor in Panaji Friday.
“We are demanding a ban at the screening of the film as it insults Christians. The FIR can be filed tomorrow,” Lourenco said.
A scene within the film, which stars Tusshar Kapoor and Riteish Deshmukh, shows another actor, Chunky Pandey (playing the role of a priest), solemnise the marriage of a dog and a bitch.
Lourenco raised the problem of a potential ban at the film or censoring the controversial scenes in it through the recently-concluded monsoon session of the Goa legislative assembly.
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, however, said that the Central Board of Film Certification, the statutory censorship and classification body, functioned under the aegis of the central and never the state government and hence not much might be done by the Goa government.
“This isn't under the jurisdiction of the state government because censor board jurisdiction lies with the central government. No religious group have to be offended within the film. Should you give me a complaint in writing, I CAN take it up with the board,” Parrikar said.
Lourenco said that the Goa government had succeeded in banning “The Da Vinci Code”, following protests by Christian groups several years back and that the similar may well be done with “Kya Super Kool Hain Hum”.
“Parrikar is making excuses. This can be a film which offends the sensitivities of the Christian community,” Lourenco said.
Christians constitute 26 percent of the Goa’s 1.4 million population. – IANS
