Mumbai: The cliff-hanger over the release of My Name Is Khan ended on a jubilant note on Friday with 35 to 40 theatres releasing the film in the city, some starting with shows from noon and Mumbaikars turning out in droves to watch the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer. After much dithering, multiplexes decided to call the Shiv Sena’s bluff and go ahead with screenings which went almost full right from the start.
Mumbaikars came out in defiance of the Sena’s diktat that theatres must not release the film to protest Shah Rukh favouring Pakistani cricket players in the IPL. A small round of applause resounded in the ticket line at Inox multiplex in south Mumbai as soon as the name of the movie and the show timings first started flashing above the ticket counter at 12.15 p.m. Earlier in the day, several moviegoers queuing up since morning were turned away.
When the ‘Current Booking’ sign was displayed, there were cheers all over. “Yeah!” cheered Jyoti Modi as she stepped out of the line with the ticket in hand. “I have come here for Shah Rukh and Kajol. If they [Shiv Sainiks] want to enter, let them. I have been waiting for the movie for a long time,” Ms. Modi told The Hindu.
At Fun Republic Multiplex in Andheri West, there was no poster advertising the film, but people quickly bought tickets for the noon show. There were some feeble attempts by the Shiv Sainiks to cause trouble and initially three or four women started protesting but the police overpowered them. Security was the heaviest at Inox, where Home Minister R.R. Patil and Minister of State (Home) Ramesh Bagwe came for the first show at 12.55 p.m.
Mr. Patil said: “Today the movie has [been] released amid much happiness. Security has been provided to all theatres. Constables have been positioned in and outside the theatres. All theatre-owners who wish to screen the movie and viewers who want to watch it will be given protection.”
Mumbaikars came out in defiance of the Sena’s diktat that theatres must not release the film to protest Shah Rukh favouring Pakistani cricket players in the IPL. A small round of applause resounded in the ticket line at Inox multiplex in south Mumbai as soon as the name of the movie and the show timings first started flashing above the ticket counter at 12.15 p.m. Earlier in the day, several moviegoers queuing up since morning were turned away.
When the ‘Current Booking’ sign was displayed, there were cheers all over. “Yeah!” cheered Jyoti Modi as she stepped out of the line with the ticket in hand. “I have come here for Shah Rukh and Kajol. If they [Shiv Sainiks] want to enter, let them. I have been waiting for the movie for a long time,” Ms. Modi told The Hindu.
At Fun Republic Multiplex in Andheri West, there was no poster advertising the film, but people quickly bought tickets for the noon show. There were some feeble attempts by the Shiv Sainiks to cause trouble and initially three or four women started protesting but the police overpowered them. Security was the heaviest at Inox, where Home Minister R.R. Patil and Minister of State (Home) Ramesh Bagwe came for the first show at 12.55 p.m.
Mr. Patil said: “Today the movie has [been] released amid much happiness. Security has been provided to all theatres. Constables have been positioned in and outside the theatres. All theatre-owners who wish to screen the movie and viewers who want to watch it will be given protection.”
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