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Multiplex stops screening `The Da Vinci Code'

Special Correspondent

PANAJI: A multiplex here stopped screening "The Da Vinci Code" from Sunday following public warnings issued by South Goa Congress MP Churchill Alemao on Saturday that people whose religious sentiments were hurt by the film would "invade the theatre and disrupt the screening".

The film was released here on Friday ending a weeklong uncertainty over its release. The Government, which had left it to the Centre to decide on the demand for banning the film, was under pressure.

Mr. Alemao had threatened on Saturday that he would not allow screening of the film in the State as it hurt the religious sentiments of Catholics. While the meeting convened by Mr. Alemao and the ruling Congress MLA Agnelo Fernandes, which was attended by priests and others from various parts of the State, was deliberating on a "modus operandi" to oppose the screening of the film, news came that the multiplex had stopped screening it.

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