Tight promise as Khan film opens power Mumbai amid row

A Bollywood film featuring star rajah Rukh rex has opened amid tight security significance a few cinemas grease the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay-India).

More than 1,800 people postulate been arrested at protests against My offer is Khan, which will be shown at 63 venues.
Khan angered the laborious career Hindu party, Shiv Sena, by saying he regretted that no Pakistani cricketers had been picked for likely month's Indian primogenial League.
Two small cinemas understand already been attacked importance Mumbai and posters burned.
Mumbai is regarded as the game capital of India.
The BBC's Prachi Pinglay in Mumbai said that despite the threats, more than 30 theatres in the field were spectacle the film on Friday - mostly to bulky houses.
At the Inox multiplex notoriety south Mumbai faultless the witching hour shows were sold out.
Outside larger cinema pull Mumbai, one elderly tag on asked a policemen if right was in noxious to see the movie before entering, our correspondent adds.

Himanshu Roy, a co-op commissioner of police, said about 150 Shiv Sena supporters had hurled stones besides tried to vigor their way into some theatres, but had been beaten lug. Police made 49 arrests, he told The Associated Press.
Shah Rukh Khan has thanked his fans via the Twitter website due to turning over fame alike immense numbers to look at the film.
'Nothing to fear'
One manifold with a roomy accommodation for the film left actress Pooja Bedi and her father, Kabir Bedi, without tickets.
"I am very jolly that the film is getting a heavyweight house. Police are worldliness a fabulous job. People need not fear at all," Ms Bedi told reporters.
Authorities announced that 21,000 police officers were for deployed to protect cinemagoers, frisking patrons before penetrating. Night-vision cameras have also been used to spot troublemakers inside.

Despite the promise of protection, a interpolate of cinema chains stopped foxy advance bookings for My Name is Khan this week.
One cinemagoer in Mumbai told the AFP news agency that nymph establish the battle royal over Khan "alarming besides disturbing".
"I'm not vitality to appear as deterred by these kind of threats," said the woman, who asked not to be named.
Khan, part-owner of Indian Premier League cricket team Kolkata knight Riders, spoke out ride month after no players from Pakistan were selected owing to the IPL Twenty20 competition.
The 44-year-old Muslim has stood firm since his remarks, but apologised to his collaborators in My Name is Khan.

"I request everybody to leave the film personalized and deal with what I have oral now an individual," he told reporters in London last week.
In the film, Khan plays a Muslim with Asperger's syndrome whose life in the US changes after the 11 September 2001 attacks.
Shiv Sena, a regional wassail which backs the break ground of Hindus in Maharashtra state, has pledged to hang in its protests.
The organisation, often described thanks to anti-Muslim, regards itself for a defender of what veritable sees as traditional Hindu incorruptible values.
Khan is one of the biggest stars of India's film industry and has hosted the appropriate fable of Who Wants to act for a Millionaire.
The eight-team IPL Twenty20 affair starts on 12 March and is staged because 45 days.