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Film producer and director Subhash Ghai has refuted allegations that his movie ‘Black and White’ depicts Muslims in a bad light and alleged that a petition filed in the Delhi High Court seeking a ban on the film is politically motivated. In his reply filed in the High Court, he contended that purpose behind the petition filed by a Delhi University professor was to tarnish his image. “The petition is malicious and filed with ulterior motive to tarnish my image, reputation and goodwill in the film fraternity and appears to have been politically motivated,” Ghai contended in his reply. He said that the petitioner, instead of taking a holistic view, has focused on isolated scenes of the film. “By referring to a single isolated word and sequence, the petitioner is personally and politically motivated to spread disharmony and discord,” he said denying that the film was directed against the Muslim community.

Ghai filed his reply on a petition filed by Dr Khalid Alvi, Head of Urdu Department in Zakir Hussain College, who had contended that the film portrayed the Muslim community in a bad light and its screening should be stayed.

“The producer, director and the script writer have intentionally produced the film with an anti-Muslim angle. The film is communally inflammable,” Alvi said in his petition.

Alvi had alleged that the protagonist of the film, a professor of Zakir Hussain College, is based on his character which has been wrongly portrayed.