Controversial Shia leader and chairman of UP Central Shia Waqf Board Waseem Rizvi alleged that he had received threat call for producing a film on ‘Ayodhya’ which is scheduled to be released next month. In a complaint filed with the Lucknow police, Rizvi said an FIR was lodged at Saadatganj police station.
“Some one identifying himself as Abdul Memon asked me not to release the film ‘Ayodhya’ and threatened to burn the theatre screening it. I have also recorded the call in my mobile phone,” Rizvi said in Lucknow on Monday. Later SSP, Lucknow, Kalanidhi Naithani ordered that the complaint be probed threadbare.
The teaser of ‘Ayodhya’ was released recently in Lucknow and it immediately sparked protests from religious leaders of both Shia and Sunni sects.