The Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday announced a three-month exemption from the State Goods and Services Tax to the upcoming Taapsee Pannu-starrer film Thappad. The film, directed by Anubhav Sinha, deals with the issue of domestic violence and is set to release on Friday.

A top official of the Commercial Tax Department said the film was exempted from SGST in view of its subject and message. Single screen cinemas and multiplexes have been asked not to collect SGST on tickets of the film, the official said.

In the film, Pannu plays an upper-middle class educated woman who is forced to continue in her marriage even after her husband slaps her. Pannu was among members of the film fraternity who had condemned police crackdown on students of Jamia Milia while accusing the government of trying to stifle the voices of dissent against the Citizenship Amendment Act.