‘Da Vinci Code’ on hold in India
“The Da Vinci Code” failed to hit movie theaters in India as scheduled Friday, as its distributor and the censor board discussed tagging the film with an additional disclaimer to warn it is a work of fiction.
Vikramjit Roy, a spokesman for the distributor, Sony Pictures India, said his company had accepted the Indian censor board’s decision to allow only adults to watch the movie.
The company was still discussing with the censor board the question of tagging an additional disclaimer at the beginning of the movie -- since the movie already shows one on-screen at the end -- saying the characters and incidents portrayed are fictitious, Roy said.
“We are in dialogue with the censor board. We are trying to reach a solution and we hope that the people of India can see the movie along with the rest of the world,” he said. He couldn’t give a date for the movie’s Indian release.
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