A public interest litigation (PIL) demanding a ban on the screening of the recently released film, “Videsh”, came up for hearing in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday.

Archit Watts, the petitioner who is a student of Panjab University, alleged that the movie had certain objectionable scenes and dialogues which hurt the religious sentiments of the people.

Showing no interest in the averments raised, the Division Bench, however, dismissed the petition, which was later withdrawn by Watts. The petitioner had referred to a scene in the Preity Zinta-starrer where an elderly woman had been shown expressing her desire to eat chicken while watching Gurbani.

The petitioner had termed it a disrespect to Gurbani and demanded the scene be deleted from the film directed by Deepa Mehta.

The averments failed to find favour with the court, which flatly refused to entertain the petition.