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AURANGABAD, OCT 18: A Hollywood director, Dushan Garsi, and his producer, Rameshkrishna Murthi, were on Sunday arrested by the police here on charges that they had hurt religious feeling while shooting for their film, `The Return of the Thief of Baghdad’, at a location near Khultabad, 30 km from here.
The director, who is here along with a unit of more than 300 people, is shooting at various places, including Ajanta, Ellora, Daulatabad, and Khultabad, since the last three days, for the film which stars among others southern sensation, Chiranjeevi. The film is scheduled to be released simultaneously in English and Telugu.
Earlier, a tense situation prevailed in the city on Sunday as news spread that portion of the holy Koran had been thorn and littered all over the location of the film in Khultabad. The news also lead to some stone pelting and a spontaneous bandh in Shahgunj area. No one was reported injured in the incident, police said.
