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Kutrapathirikai has both fiction and fact: court

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Additional Solicitor-General told to make submissions

CHENNAI: The First Bench of the Madras High Court has observed that the Tamil film, Kutrapathirikai, based on the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, contained both fiction and facts.

The Bench, comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice K. Chandru, had witnessed a special screening of the film on Wednesday. During arguments on the writ appeal, preferred by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) on Thursday, the Judges said that instead of glorifying a particular banned organisation, as claimed by the CBFC, the film showed the organisation in a poor light. In more than one place, the film was critical of the organisation and blames it for disruption of peace in the State, they observed. Asking Additional Solicitor-General of India V.T. Gopalan to make his submissions on November 27, with regard to the questions raised in the court as well as the propriety of the CBFC in preferring the present appeal, the Judges said probe into the case had been completed and even books had been written about it. They felt that the film version was not at variance with narration in books.

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