The director of upcoming film Aladin, Sujoy Ghosh, has posted his apologies online and confirmed that he had made arrangements to remove the posters of his film that defaced the paintings on the walls of Senapati Bapat Marg.

Last Sunday, over a hundred of youngsters had painted the walls from Mahim to Lower Parel as part of the fast-growing and BMC-funded wall project. But less than 24 hours later, their works had been plastered with the posters of films Aladin, London Dreams, Canvas and Gair. Enraged at this, artists decided to protest against film promoters’ act in cyberspace— Twitter and Facebook— and asked movie-goers to boycott these films. They even posted the pictures of the defaced walls online and forwarded them to Ghosh and Riteish Deshmukh, the lead actor in Aladin, via Twitter. Both Ghosh and Deshmukh immediately posted apologies and promised to do something about it. On Tuesday morning, Ghosh tweeted that he had made some arrangements to remove the posters. “I’m told that Aladin posters have been removed from the walls. Let me know if, otherwise heads will roll,” he tweeted.

“I had nothing to do with this as the film’s director,” Ghosh said. “But the minute I found it, I personally took up the responsibility to get the posters removed.”

Meanhwile, the rest of the posters —of London Dreams and the other films —were still found on the walls.

Vipul Shah, producer of London Dreams, said he had no idea that his film’s posters had defaced the artists’ works. “I apologise, and will do anything necessary to restore the wall,” he said.

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