Kareena's bare-back poster irks Shiv Sena

MUMBAI: Another Karan Johar release is facing the music, this time from Shiv Sena. The party has objected to the bare-backed posters of Kareena Kapoor from the film ���Kurbaan���.

More than 100 Shiv Sainiks took to streets and tore down posters of the film in Juhu, Marol and other parts of Andheri on Friday. A month back, MNS had objected to the use of the Mumbai���s old name, Bombay, in Johar���s ���Wake Up Sid���; he had to bend over backwards to the chauvinists and the film had to be screened with a disclaimer.

Friday���s protests were led by Sena activists Jitendra Janawale in Juhu and Subhash Kanta Sawant in Marol. Sawant said: ������We objected to the posters as they showed the actress semi-nude and we found to be in very bad taste. It violates our Indian culture.������

The Sainiks also put a sari around Kareena in some of the posters. A group of Sainiks even headed for Kareena���s residence and wanted to present a sari to her. But a police officer said: ������We deployed our people near the actress���s house but nothing untoward happened.������ Kareena was said to be out for a shooting and was not at home.

Additional commissioner of police (West) Amitabh Gupta said the Khar police station had been asked to register a case against the offencers. An industry insider said political parties were picking on soft targets to get some mileage and the MNS���s impressive showing in the recent Maharashtra assembly polls was ������forcing������ the Sena to look for rabble-rousing issues.

������The film industry has always been a soft target as the government does not take action against political parties,������ the industry insider said.

������The government took a proactive decision in only one case, providing Anurag Kashyap security; but that was because they knew that the director would never apologise to MNS,������ another Bollywood insider said. Kashyap, reacting to a question from a news channel about his film ���DevD��� being vulgar, said RajThackeray���s words were much more vulgar than his films.