As
Bengali
actress
Paoli
Dam
makes
her
Bollywood
debut
in
Vikram
Bhatt's
erotic
thriller
Hate
Story,
her
posters
are
being
painted
blue
in
the
city
to
hide
her
bare
back
following
orders
of
the
Calcutta
High
Court.
The
film's
regional
distributors
Kushagra
Arts
and
cinema
hall
owners
are
now
covering
the
bare
skin
of
the
Bengali
bombshell
by
colouring
it
with
blue
ink.
Justice
Dipankar
Dutta
of
the
High
Court,
yesterday
refused
to
stay
an
order
by
the
West
Bengal
Board
of
Censorship,
which
had
directed
the
distributors
not
to
display
the
posters
showing
the
actress
in
sensuous
positions.
Describing
them
as
"obscene
and
provocative",
the
Censor
board
had
banned
two
posters
-
one
showing
Paoli's
bare
back
and
the
other
which
shows
her
in
a
compromising
position
with
a
man.
Six
other
posters
were
cleared
only
after
blotting
out
the
bare
body
of
the
actress
with
blue
ink.
Admitting
that
the
posters
of
Hate
Story
are
being
modified
with
ink,
director
Vivek
Agnihotri
told
PTI
from
Mumbai
that
the
move
by
the
state
government
run
Censor
board
would
only
help
in
the
publicity
of
his
film.
"I
am
getting
more
publicity
because
of
this.
My
film
is
now
bigger
than
it
was
earlier," he
said.
With
only
her
bare
back
visible,
and
a
strategically
placed
gun
and
tattoo
in
the
main
poster
of
the
film,
Paoli
created
a
tremendous
buzz
all
over
the
country.
"If
I
make
a
film
on
football,
I
will
have
football
in
the
posters.
But
this
is
about
sex
and
so
a
bare
body
will
be
on
the
posters
to
tell
people
what
my
film
is
all
about,"
Agnihotri
said.
Hate
Story
is
based
on
a
woman's
vengeance
and
how
she
uses
her
sexuality
as
a
lethal
weapon
as
she
transforms
herself
from
a
simple
middle
class
journalist
to
a
sex
worker.
The
film,
which
also
stars
Nikhil
Dwivedi
and
Gulshan
Devaiah,
hits
theatres
this
Friday.