'Kaali' poster row: Uttar Pradesh Police files FIR against filmmaker Leena Manimekalai

LUCKNOW: An FIR was registered at Hazratganj police station in Lucknow against Indian documentary filmmaker Leena Manimekalai for a poster in her new film 'Kaali' where a woman dressed as the Hindu deity is seen smoking.

The FIR lodged on the basis of a complaint by advocate Ved Prakash Shukla states that the poster of the movie 'Kaali' released on social media has hurt religious sentiments of a particular faith.

Others named in the FIR include film editor Shrawan Onachan and producer Asha Associates. The three were under sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 295 (injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class) of IPC, and sections 66 and 67 of IT Act, police added.