Bollywood promo sparks protests

Saturday November 21, 2009 (1306 PST)

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MUMBAI: Promotional posters for a new Bollywood thriller, showing leading actress Kareena Kapoor from behind and apparently naked from the waist up, have got some people’s backs up in India. “Kurbaan� hits screens in India and more than 25 countries around the world on Friday and has attracted intense interest because Kapoor and leading man Saif Ali Khan are a couple in real life.

But the Shiv Sena, a hardline Hindu nationalist group, have called the poster and the love scene from which it was taken an affront to Indian values. Activists ripped down posters near the actress’s home in north Mumbai and even painted a sari onto her image on one roadside ad, local newspaper reports said.

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