KOLKATA: The Ranveer Singh-Priyanka Chopra starrer ‘Gunday’, due to be released on February 14, has landed in legal trouble over a song and dance sequence shot in the city.
On Monday, Calcutta high court lawyer Krishnendu Gooptu filed a PIL wanting to know why permission was granted to shoot the sequence against the backdrop of the Dakshineswar Kali Temple and Calcutta high court. The matter is likely to come up for hearing on Friday before the bench of Chief Justice A K Mishra and Justice Joymalya Bagchi.
The petitioner went through a clipping of the song Tune Maari Entriyan that has Ranveer, Priyanka and other actors gyrating near the statue of Surjya Sen outside the high court and in the courtyard of the Dakshineswar Temple.
“At Dakshineswar, the sequence was shot just outside the sanctum sanctorum where devotees gather in their thousands on any given day. The temple was the abode of somebody of the stature of Ramakrishna Paramahansa and such behaviour there should never be encouraged. One wonders when the sequence was shot. It must have been done when the Goddess rests and nobody is allowed inside the temple. The other possibility is that the devotees were prevented from entering while the sequence was being shot. Either way, what took place was not right. In 2011, permission had been sought by another producer to shoot a sequence inside the temple. The request was turned down,” Gooptu said.
The PIL also states that permission should never have been granted to shoot the sequence against the backdrop of the high court, which is a high-security zone.
“I have prayed to the court to delete the scenes from the film when it is released. I have also sought directions that such permissions shouldn’t be granted in the future,” Gooptu added.