{"id":235665,"date":"2019-10-08T11:40:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T06:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=235665"},"modified":"2019-10-08T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T06:42:39","slug":"shamoon-demands-censors-to-reverse-ban-on-durj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/shamoon-demands-censors-to-reverse-ban-on-durj\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamoon Demands Censors To Reverse Ban on &#8220;Durj&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shamoon Abbasi, actor and director par excellence, has urged authorities to consider his film \u2018Durj\u2019 for a full board review. He made these remarks during an interview with a local TV channel.<\/p>\n<p>Shamoon\u2019s comment came after the Islamabad censor board banned his much-awaited film. The movie had already received clearance from Sindh and Punjab boards.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Shamoon urged the Islamabad authorities to spell out the reasons his film was banned from screening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSindh Censor board member Umer Khitab Khan viewed the film, and he stated in an interview on Samaa TV that Durj has nothing objectionable and Sindh board and Punjab board issued clearance certificates, then why Islamabad has imposed a complete ban on it,\u201d he wrote on his official Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRHJB-cS8dQ9yaKsVH7-bQ6X2vIK0xrYOWM_oUU3FUIKtAGmUQq\" alt=\"Image result for Durj\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Durj updates:<br \/>Sindh Censor board member umer khitab Khan viewed the film and he stated in an inteview on samaa TV that Durj has nothing objectionable and Sindh board and punjab board  issued clearance certificates, then why islamabad has imposed a complete ban on it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnbanDurj?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnbanDurj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shamoon Abbasi (@shamoonAbbasi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shamoonAbbasi\/status\/1181104836055580674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018<strong>Waar<\/strong>\u2019 actor highlighted that neither \u2018Durj\u2019 had any obscene visuals, nor it showed bloodshed or promoted any vulgarity.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned that \u2018Durj\u2019 was an informative movie \u201cthat discussed the mental health of people involved in crimes like cannibalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DURJ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DURJ<\/a> Is an informative movie that discuses the mental health of people involved in crimes like cannibalism the film doesn&#39;t have  any gruesome or bloodshedding scenes nor its a vulgar film<\/p>\n<p>DURJ can bring a major change in Pakistans film industry<br \/>Not sure why banned <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/unbandurj?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#unbandurj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shamoon Abbasi (@shamoonAbbasi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shamoonAbbasi\/status\/1181105919880564737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He asserted that the film could prove to be a stepping stone towards the betterment of Pakistan\u2019s film industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamoon Abbasi, actor and director par excellence, has urged authorities to consider his film \u2018Durj\u2019 for a full board review. He made these remarks during an interview with a local TV channel. Shamoon\u2019s comment came after the Islamabad censor board banned his much-awaited film. The movie had already received clearance from Sindh and Punjab boards. During the interview, Shamoon urged [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/shamoon-demands-censors-to-reverse-ban-on-durj\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":221533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2199,1293,1297],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-235665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-lollywood","9":"category-tv-movies-music"},"wps_subtitle":"The screening of the film is banned in Pakistan.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/durj-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/durj-758x426.jpg",758,426,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/durj.jpg",1000,562,false]},"author_name":"Raza Rizvi","categories_name":["Featured","Lollywood","TV &amp; Film"],"title_text":"Shamoon Demands Censors To Reverse Ban on \u201cDurj\u201d","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2199,1293,1297&exclude=235665","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235665"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=235665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}