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Kartaar Singh. Singh is a hockey player whose life experiences lead him to fight against injustice, corruption and equal rights in the police and government systems. The film's central story is based around Kartaar Singh's journey as a Sikh fighter which is filled with courage, perseverance, and faith.
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The producers are in the process of dubbing the film in Hindi and
English, in order to make it accessible to a wider audience. "We got a lot of demand from overseas as well as different parts of India to dub the movie. The dubbing has already started and the DVD rights and satellite rights for the
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on Sunday lauded the Badal government for its timely action to ban the film in the interest of hard-earned peace in the state. Kalia said it was quite strange that the
Central Board of Film Certification had failed to do its job (of banning the movie) despite the fact that the union ministry of
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The movie tells the story of Sharon Gill, a modern-day
Canadian Sikh graduate student who travels to India as part of her thesis on minorities at war. Revelations about the past soon leave the student curious for more information, and Gill's awareness changes after maneuvering into prison to
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Congress (PMC) and Hindu organisations, led by the state vice-president of PMC, Nimisha Mehta, demanded a permanent ban on the Punjabi film Sadda Haq its trailers, songs, promos and promotional activities, which they alleged glorified the
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refused to lift the ban on the film in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar
Pradesh and in many other places. It lifted the ban after proper screening of the film in court no. 15 on 26 April 2013. The movie will be released with an 'A' certification on 10
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