This is absurd, lashes out Pooja

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="36.5%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" e6e6e6=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/992711.cms" alt="/photo/992711.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">"What can one do in a country like ours where despite having every paper and approval in place, one has to answer such things?" asks an irate, actor-producer-director Pooja Bhatt.<br /><br />Pooja and the executive producer for her latest film <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Rog</span>, Sujit Kumar Singh, have both received notices from the social service branch of the Mumbai police following a complaint lodged by a lecturer at the St. Xavier''s college in the city.<br /><br />Squashing rumours that the police is on her trail, Pooja says, "I have not been called to the police station or anything like that." <br /><br />"I have received a notice from the social service branch and have been asked to furnish the censor board certificate for the movie, the approval certificate for the posters from our governing body and the negatives of pictures that we used in the posters." <br /><br />What about news of her being harassed by the police? <br /><br />"Absolute nonsense. You have to be an imbecile to use posters and pictures that have not been approved. As for the police, they too are interested in getting their facts right."<br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="0" width="36.5%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" ffffff=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/992705.cms" alt="/photo/992705.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">Let''s not forget that once the media attention dies down, it''s the police, who are left with 500 people objecting about 500 things. My counsel and my executive producer are cooperating and will furnish the requested documents. <br /><br />It is absolutely absurd. I have every thing, every approval in order and then I am told I am not free to do this and that. This complainant is definitely barking up the wrong tree."<br /><br />But this is not the first time this is happening with her... <br /><br />"Of course not. In fact I can look back to 1999, when I received my National Award for my movie <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Zakhm </span>being the best film on national integration. <br /><br />The very next day when I flew back to Mumbai, I was asked to appear in court along with 13 other actresses - an obscenity case had been lodged against us. There was Tabu, Madhuri, Karisma... all our names were there. <br /><br />The judge however threw the case out of the window declaring that no one person could decide on the definition of obscenity." <br /><br />In other words, there is no basis for this complaint? <br /><br />"See, I don''t want to get into any discussion about what is ''obscenity''. We all have our opinions on that. Some might find a Ilene Hamman wearing a crocheted bikini obscene, others might find something else obscene. <br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section3"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></div> <div class="Normal" style="" text-align:="" center=""><img src="/photo/992708.cms" alt="/photo/992708.cms" border="0" /></div> <div class="Normal"><br /><br />We are all free to have our own opinions. That is why we are living in this fantastic democracy called India. I do my designs according to my aesthetic sensibilities. I don''t say everyone has to like them. <br /><br />However, I have taken those designs to the people, who have been given the authority to decide for the rest of India; and those people have also approved. So where''s the problem?"<br /><br />Where is the problem then?<br /><br />"The problem is when people lodge these complaints without getting their facts right. It''s just when someone wants their fifteen minutes of fame that they decide to lodge these complaints. <br /><br />The movie got an ''A'' certificate from the censor board, the governing body approved of the posters, which were put up for a certain period of time and then removed, the movie released and didn''t do well. <br /><br />Now when I am getting beyond that and working on my next movie, I have this. All those people who say they are against sex are all finally using it for their share under the limelight. Someone tell me what am I supposed to do in such a scenario?" <br /><br />For the record, before any movie poster is put up in any public forum — billboards, street lamps, theatres and even in newspaper — an approval certificate has to be obtained from the Association of Motion Pictures & TV Programme Producers of India (AMPTPP). </div> </div>