Barbie now playing in Punjab after four dialogues beeped

On Friday night, Punjab cinema homeowners instantly began opening exhibits for Barbie and promoting tickets, as soon as once more. Some customers additionally shared screenshots of Common Cinema telling prospects that for the reason that objections raised by the Censor Board have been resolved, the movie is being performed, and the tickets accommodated.

In gentle of the event, The Specific Tribune reached out to the Punjab Movie Censor Board, and as soon as once more, nobody was prepared to talk on the document, virtually as if Barbie’s flamboyance and Robbie’s attraction had taken over the board by a spell. After just a little probing on Saturday morning, although, an individual from the Punjab Movie Censor Board shared that the distributor lastly agreed to mute the objectionable phrases as a result of they had been “selling homosexuality”.

Earlier, sources had advised The Specific Tribune that Barbie was not “banned” in Punjab and the Punjab Movie Censor Board even issued an NOC for it on Thursday.

Nonetheless, the board had demanded that 4 phrases be beeped or excised by some means earlier than the movie opens for public screening and this did not sit properly with HKC Leisure, the native distributors of Barbie in Pakistan. Upon reaching out, their native consultant didn’t return The Specific Tribune’s calls, nor reply to messages. The corporate CEO Hammad Chaudhry additionally remained unreachable.

Information of the extremely anticipated Barbie movie being banned in Punjab started circulating on Friday morning when a tweet claimed that the Punjab Movie Censor Board withheld the NOC (No Objection Certificates) for the film, citing “objectionable” content material. The announcement, that rapidly gained traction on Twitter, states, “Barbie has been banned in Pakistan’s Punjab area for exhibiting pro-LGBTQ content material. Punjab censor board has withheld NOC for the film except ‘objectionable’ content material is eliminated.”

A easy Google search additionally revealed that main Lahore cinemas, such because the Cue Cinemas, Cine Star, and Common Cinemas, weren’t screening the movie, additional fueling speculations of a ban. In the meantime, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was being screened in any respect the theatres talked about, resulting in questions and confusion amongst moviegoers in regards to the Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling-starrer.

The Barbie movie has been working efficiently in Sindh and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) unedited.

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