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Artists up in arms over cultural policing

Updated on Mar 17, 2009 09:12 pm IST

A regional language film director, whose plans to install a statue of famous comedian Charlie Chaplin ran into a controversy, received permission to hold a protest rally against cultural policing on Monday. The controversy arose after director Hemanth Hegde planned to install a 62-feet-high statue of Charlie Chaplin as a backdrop to a song sequence in House Full, his Kannada language film.

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