Aamir Khan’s son Junaid Khan’s movie ‘Maharaj’ has been placed on maintain – Life & Model

The Gujarat Excessive Court docket on Thursday stayed the discharge of Aamir Khan’s son Junaid Khan’s debut movie Maharaj, following a petition by a Hindu group that claimed the movie would incite violence towards followers of a Hindu sect.

Directed by Siddharth P Malhotra and produced by Aditya Chopra, the movie was scheduled to launch on Netflix at the moment.

In line with Indian media, this order was issued on a petition filed by a Hindu group.

The petition alleged that the movie, based mostly on the Maharaj defamation case of 1862, was more likely to have an effect on public order and incite violence towards followers of the Hindu faith.

The group additionally argued that the movie was being secretly launched with out a trailer or any promotional occasion, to stop entry to the story.

After contemplating the petition, the Gujarat Excessive Court docket issued an interim order to cease the discharge of the movie in any approach. The listening to of this matter has now been fastened on June 18.

Aamir Khan’s son’s debut movie fell into the palms of extremists earlier than its launch

In the meantime, a ‘Boycott Netflix’ name was trending on social media website X, with many opposing the transfer, claiming that Netflix was selling ‘anti-Hindu’ content material.

In line with a press launch issued by Netflix final month, ‘Maharaj’ is the story of journalist and social reformer Sundas Mulji, who was a pioneer of ladies’s rights and social reforms.

It needs to be famous that the movie “Maharaj” was the debut movie of Junaid Khan, the elder son of Bollywood’s well-known actor, director and producer Aamir Khan. However his movie fell into the palms of extremists earlier than its launch.

The primary poster of ‘Maharaj’ was launched on Instagram by ‘Netflix India’ and ‘Yash Raj Movies Leisure’, and it was nicely acquired by followers.

Earlier than coming into the movie trade, Junaid Khan began his profession from tv.

He has been part of the Indian actuality present “Masterminds”, not solely that he additionally labored in his father Aamir Khan’s movie ‘PK’ with director Rajkumar Hirani.