Channel Four trains scissors on `unIslamic’ Jinnah, for Pak’

Pakistan has objected to Christopher Lee, best known for his role of dracula in horror films, playing Jinnah, who is depicted in the film as “intransigent” and “power hungry”.

The latest objection by Pakistan is to the title, Secret history — A bloody partition. The Pakistan High Commission here feels that the title would trigger riots in Pakistan, according to The Times.

Channel Four last week made some changes in the film, omitting scenes which portrayed Jinnah given to drinking whisky and eating food stuffs banned by Islam. The film shows that Jinnah, who died of tuberculosis a year after the partition of India in 1947, never wanted to set up a separate Muslim state, but only seek guarantee of autonomy within India, The Times said.

“Jinnah is depicted as a non-practising Muslim, who felt more at ease with British gentry than his own people,” media reports said.