'Jayeshbhai Jordaar' in legal trouble for sex determination scene in trailer starring Ranveer Singh

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• May 5, 2022 | Poonam Nath

The film aims to promote the "Save Girl Child" slogan and is anti-female foeticide; the trailer promotes the use of ultrasound technology.

Digital Desk: Ranveer Singh's 'Jayeshbhai Jordaar' landed in legal trouble just a few weeks before its official release. On Wednesday, a petition was filed in the Delhi High Court challenging the Ranveer Singh film 'Jayeshbhai Jordaar' over a scene in the film's trailer.

The characters can be seen using ultrasound technology for prenatal sex determination in the scene deemed objectionable.

The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was assigned to the division bench, including Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla.

Even though the film aims to promote the "Save Girl Child" slogan and is against female foeticide, the petitioner claims that the trailer promotes the use of ultrasound technology.

"The ultrasound clinic scene where the technology of ultrasound for sex selection is being advertised openly without censor and as per section 3, 3A, 3B, 4, 6 & 22 of the PC & PNDT Act, same is not allowed & hence the instant PIL," said petitioner 'Youth Against Crime,' an NGO filed through Advocate Pawan Prakash Pathak.

Even though the film aims to promote the "Save Girl Child" slogan and is opposed to female foeticide, the petitioner claims that the trailer promotes the use of ultrasound technology.

Petitioner 'Youth Against Crime,' an NGO, said in a statement filed through Advocate Pawan Prakash Pathak: "The ultrasound clinic scene where the technology of ultrasound for sex selection is being advertised openly without censor and as per section 3, 3A, 3B, 4, 6 & 22 of the PC & PNDT Act, same is not allowed & hence the instant PIL."

The upcoming social comedy, directed by debutant filmmaker Divyang, is supported by Yash Raj Films and Maneesh Sharma and revolves around Singh's Jayeshbhai, the village head's son. He is under pressure from the family to produce a male heir.

Things become more complicated when his family learns the gender of his unborn child and decides to terminate the pregnancy, forcing the mild-mannered Jayeshbhai to step up finally.

"What I found amazing about Chaplin's films is that you can't stop laughing while it's talking about something tragic." In Charlie Chaplin's films, this would happen. That is what struck me the most about this film. 'To truly laugh, and you have to take your pain and play with it,' Charlie Chaplin once said. "I love tragic humour; I find it the funniest because beneath the humour and entertainment lies something all too real," actor Ranveer Singh said at the trailer launch for "Jyeshbhai Jordaar."

The film, directed by Divyang Thakkar, will be released on May 13.

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