Pak Censors ban Raanjhanaa on grounds of "controversial subject"

Following the banning of recent films like Ek Tha Tiger, GI Joe and Agent Vinod among many others, the Pakistan Film Censor Board has banned the exhibition of the Dhanush and Sonam Kapoor starrer Raanjhanaa on the grounds that it has a controversial theme. According to the CEO of IMGC Global Entertainment Amjad Rasheed, the importer of the film, he got a letter from the CBFC (Pakistan) that they were disallowing the film from exhibition in the country because the film portrays an inapt image of a Muslim girl (played by Sonam Kapoor) falling in love with a Hindu man and having an affair with him. The Aanand L Rai-directed film's plot portrays Muslim girl Zoya (Sonam) falling in love with Kundan (Dhanush) and later Jasjeet Singh (Abhey Deol). The film starts with pundit's Hindu Brahmin son Kundan falling for Zoya at first sight. He follows her to school, after school, in the market — almost everywhere. After getting slapped 16 times by Zoya, Kundan finally gets to know her name, but his hesitation that she will reject him because of his religion leads him to introduce himself as Rizwan. She agrees to meet him behind a temple, but the meeting does not turn out well as Zoya finds out that he's Hindu. As the story unfolds, Zoya also develops feelings for Kundan. However, once her parents come to know about this puppy love, she is sent off to Delhi in order to protect the family's honour. Later in Delhi, Zoya falls in love with Jasjeet Singh, a student leader who also leads a political party. What happens next forms the crux of the film.