Afghanistan bans ‘Kite Runner’
Afghanistan has banned the import and exhibition of “The Kite Runner,” a film about the troubled friendship of two Afghan boys.
The decision was made “because some of its scenes are questionable and unacceptable for some people . . . and would cause trouble for the government and people,” a government official said.
Paramount, the studio behind the adaptation of the 2003 bestselling novel by U.S.-based Afghan author Khaled Hosseini, last year had to get its three young stars out of their homeland before the movie premiered to protect them from a possible backlash.
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