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By V.S. Sambandan
The movie, which ran to packed houses in the first couple of weeks in Colombo, was ruled by the LTTE's `film review committee' as one that ``dissipated Tamil youth from value traditions, particularly education'', according to informed Tamil commentators. While the screening of the film has been barred in rebel-held Vanni, censored versions were permitted in Tamil-majority areas such as Batticaloa. In addition to what is considered ``crude sexuality'' portrayed in the movie, the overall objection ``is that the movie belongs to a genre that promotes false goals'' and the larger theme that ``there is nothing more to life than the pursuit of love''. Before the ban on Boys, the rebels banned Baba, starring Rajnikanth, for being ``steeped in superstition''. Earlier, another Tamil movie, Kannathil Mutthamittal, which centred on the island's separatist conflict, was severely criticised but not banned. The criticism of that movie was also linked to previous creations by its director, Mani Rathnam, such as Iruvar, based on Tamil Nadu's Dravidian politics, and Uyire, a love story based on the Kashmiri conflict. According to sources, films by Tamil actor-producer, Kamal Haasan, and Bengali director, Satyajit Ray, are popular. For instance, Anbe Sivam, which starred the former, was widely welcomed. Apart from ``crude sexuality'', the LTTE considers Boys as a movie that casts a ``class slur''. Specifically, the rebels consider a scene set near a women's college — in which a fair-skinned boy speaks in English to a dark-skinned youth, who does not know the language — objectionable. Another scene in which the hero of the film is shown walking naked in a crowded road was considered as one that ``played up the genre of boys doing anything to win a girl''. Some sections of the soundtrack were censored before the film was permitted in Batticaloa after a two-day ban. "I haven't yet watched the movie. I am told it is objectionable. May be one of these days I will go to the town and check it out,'' a Tamil youth told The Hindu in Batticaloa.
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