Jaipur\/Mumbai,
\nViolent protests spread to towns and cities in many states, including Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, a day ahead of the release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali\u2019s \u201cPadmaavat\u201d, as fringe groups opposing the film remained defiant.<\/p>\n
A bus was torched and a highway blocked in Haryana\u2019s Gurgaon where protesters violated prohibitory orders while the police had to use force to disperse an agitating mob in Lucknow.<\/p>\n
Karni Sena members allegedly damaged two state roadways buses in Jaipur and blocked a road in the city\u2019s Kalwar area scores of activists were held in Mumbai and Nashik. In Ahmedabad, the police arrested 50 persons in connection with the violence and vandalism outside malls last night. As many as 30 motorcycles and scooters, parked outside three multiplexes in the city were set ablaze by protesters.<\/p>\n
In a yet another worrying sign for the controversy-mired flick, the Multiplex Association of India, which represents about 75 per cent of multiplex owners, said the film would not be screened in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Goa.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have decided not to play the film in four states Rajasthan, Gujarat, MP and Goa as the local management has told us that the law and order situation is not conducive,\u201d Deepak Asher, president of the association, said.<\/p>\n
In Gujarat, theatre owners said that the film would not be screened in any of the multiplexes or single screens till the row was resolved.<\/p>\n
Madhya Pradesh was another state where fringe outfits staged demonstrations. Nearly 200 protesters blocked National Highway-3, which links Agra with Mumbai, near Pigdambar crossing in Kishanganj area in Indore district and broke glass bottles on the road, the police said.<\/p>\n
As protests raged, Karni Sena\u2019s chief patron Lokendra Singh Kalvi also insisted that a \u2018Janta curfew\u2019 will be imposed on theatres that screen the movie. He also alleged that a dream sequence between the characters of Alauddin Khilji and Rani Padmavati existed in the film, which, he said, was \u201cintolerable\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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