New Delhi

The Bombay High Court has permitted the producers to release the Anu-Kapoor starring Hindi movie "Hamare Baarah" in theaters across India as “there is nothing in the movie against Islam.

Hamare Barah was premiered at the Cannes International festival but pending a petition against it in the Bombay High Court, the Supreme Court had ordered a ban on its release till the disposal of the case.

The Bombay High Court said, "The movie is in fact for the upliftment of women. The movie has a Maulana misinterpreting the Quran and in fact one Muslim man objects to the same in the scene"

"So this shows that people should apply their mind and not blindly follow such Maulana".

The Bombay High Court said it watched “Hamare Baarah” movie and found nothing objectionable in it that was against the Quran or the Muslim community. The court observed that the film is aimed at the upliftment of women. It also said the Indian public was “not gullible or silly”.

Court said the film’s first trailer was objectionable, but that has been removed and all such objectionable scenes have been deleted from the movie.

Many petitions were filed in the HC seeking a ban on the movie claiming that it was derogatory towards the Muslim community and had distorted what the Quran says.

The court said it has some suggestions over a few scenes that may still be objectionable.

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The bench said if all the parties concerned agree to the deletion of the objectionable parts then consent terms could be submitted, after which the court would pass an order on Wednesday permitting the release of the movie.