{"id":5,"date":"2010-09-22T05:08:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T05:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2010-12-16T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T06:18:10","slug":"pre-ayodhya-verdict-affect-aakrosh-release-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Ayodhya verdict affect: ‘Aakrosh’ release delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ahead of Friday’s verdict on Ayodhya, Bollywood is treading cautiously and the release of two major films have been rescheduled.<\/p>\n

The producers, it seems, do not want to take a risk by releasing their films during the week.<\/p>\n

After the release date of Ranbir Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra starrer Anjaana Anjaani<\/em> was postponed till October 1, filmmaker Priyadarshan too has decided to delay the release of his Aakrosh<\/em> by a week.<\/p>\n

The film will now hit theatres on October 8, thus avoiding the clash with Sajid Nadiadwala’s movie.<\/p>\n

“The Ayodhya verdict issue is likely to affect most of the Bollywood releases, not just Aakrosh<\/em>. Other films are also going to delay their releases by at least a week. Also we did not want to clash with Anjaana Anjaani<\/em>,” Priyadarshan told reporters here.<\/p>\n

The film, starring Ajay Devgn and Akshay Khanna, is on the issue of honour-killing, which has been dominating newspaper headlines for some time.<\/p>\n

Ajay and Akshay also appealed to the public to maintain peace and respect the court verdict.<\/p>\n

Earlier, producer Nadiadwala postponed the release of Anjaana Anjaani<\/em> after the film’s lead pair Ranbir and Priyanka voiced their concern.<\/p>\n

Nadiadwala said initially he was of the opinion that the release should be according to the schedule.<\/p>\n

“There is no denying the fact that the Ayodhya issue is much bigger and needs respect. Ranbir had addressed the issue with me and Eros and we gave it a thought. Ranbir is of course one of the most looked-upon youth icons of our time and his point was a much sensitised and a valid one.”<\/p>\n

After having discussed this with Eros, we have decided to release the film on October 1, he said.<\/p>\n

“It is an important day for the country. I hope there is no dispute and the decision is favourable to all. Audiences may not be able to go watch the film on that day,” Ranbir had said.<\/p>\n

According to trade experts in the industry, the delay in releases will affect Bollywood throughout the year. Many small films, who were looking for a normal release will have to adjust their dates so that they don’t clash with the big banners, they said.<\/p>\n

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Ahead of Friday’s verdict on Ayodhya, Bollywood is treading cautiously and the release of two major films have been rescheduled. The producers, it seems, do not want to take a risk by releasing their films during the week. After the release date of Ranbir Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra starrer Anjaana Anjaani was postponed till October 1, filmmaker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,27,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian","category-cinema","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}