As protests continued to erupt on the streets of Kathmandu recently over Bollywood's first Kungfu comedy "Chandni Chowk to China", the new Maoist-led government officially banned the film.The formal ban by the ministry of information and communications came as cinemas in Nepal had on their own stopped screening the controversial film.All Kathmandu valley cinemas hurriedly dropped the Akshay Kumar-Deepika Padukone starrer and began showing the earlier Bollywood release "Ghajini" or waited for another Bollywood film "Raaz" to be released soon.The decision, that would cost the distributors of the films millions of rupees, was taken after angry protests began over the erroneous claim in the film that the Buddha, Nepal's best-known religious icon, was born in India."The Buddha was born in Nepal, learn to respect Nepal's identity and sovereignty," students screamed during a protest rally before an engineering college in the valley.
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