MUMBAI: The upcoming Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone-starrer motion movie ‘Fighter’ has been banned in Gulf international locations.

Nonetheless, the one nation the place the movie shall be screened within the Center East is the UAE, as per experiences.

In response to movie enterprise professional Girish Johar, the movie has been denied a launch within the Gulf international locations with the UAE being the one exception.

Johar confirmed that ‘Fighter’ will launch within the UAE with PG 15 classification.

The rationale for the ban is unclear to date.

An official affirmation concerning the ban is but to be made by the makers, who’ve deliberate a worldwide launch for the movie on January 25 together with UAE.

‘Fighter’ is not the primary movie to be banned in Gulf international locations. Earlier, the Mammootty-starrer ‘Kaathal – The Core’, the Thalapathy Vijay Vijay-starrer ‘Beast’, ‘Sita Ramam’, Tamil movie ‘FIR’ and the Mohanlal-starrer ‘Monster’ had been banned.

The gulf international locations deny launch of movies over totally different causes, a few of which embody the portrayal of Islamists as extremists, promotion of LGBTQIA+ content material and non secular grounds as effectively.