Honor Killing is a British Indian film starring British, Indian and Pakistani artists. The film covers the sensitive issue of Honor Killing which is a prevailing issue in South Asia like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan. A large South Asian community is now active part of British society, where cases of honor killing are regularly reported every year.
Honor Killing also stars Pakistani artists like Zara Sheikh and Javed Sheikh. Zara Sheikh has played the role of a British Pakistani girl who loves and Indian boy. The film has already been released in UK and India last year (2014).
The film was due to release in Pakistan last week (27th February 2015) but it was not screened after conflicting decisions by two different censor boards of our country. The federal censor board refused to issue a censor certificate, however Sindh Censor Board issued a censor certificate for the film. The story not finishes over here, as Federal Censor board has revoked the powers of provincial censor boards after this decision of Sindh censor board. As per new rules now only Federal Censor Board can issue the censor certificates to foreign films.
It is the second film banned this year by a censor board, previously Indian film BABY was banned by Sindh Censor Board.
Here is the reference news from the Urdu Daily Jehan Pakistan
Another excerpt from Urdu Daily Express
Before 2011 there was only one federal censor board in Pakistan. However after 18th Amendment in the constitution in 2011 the duty is shifted to provinces. As per constitution each province can have its own censor board.However currently only Punjab and Sindh have established their censor boards. There is no cinema functioning in the province of Balochistan whereas Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is yet to setup its censor board. The federal censor board has jurisdiction over federal capital Islamabad, Azad Jammu Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, FATA and cantonment areas in various cities. Also since Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is yet to setup its own censor board, so it is currently served by Federal Censor Board.
In past the decisions of various censor boards sometimes negate others decision as well. In 2014 a Bollywood film Ragini MMS2 was denied censor certificate by Punjab Censor Board. However Sindh censor board and Federal board allowed its screening under Adult censor certificate. It led to an interesting situation as the film was not allowed to release in parts of Punjab controlled by local bodies, but cinemas in cantonment areas can release the film as the cantonment area were under the jurisdiction of Federal Censor Board.
Here is the trailer of this British Indian film.
Rashid Nazir Ali
