Anara to come Jammu next month for screening of her movie

Jammu, June 24 (UNI) Former Miss Jammu Anara Gupta has decided to come here in the first week of next month to convince the people who are opposing the screening of the movie ''Miss Anara'' in her home town.

Anara's debut film based on her life, could not be screened on its release in her home state due to protests by some political activists.

The movie on the life story of Anara, produced by K K Yadav Productions, is already being released in other parts of the country. However, theatre owners in Jammu and Kashmir have succumbed to Sena threats and have refused to release the film.

Talking to UNI over phone, Anara said she would come home and talk to the protestors so that her movie, which is already being screened in 200 cinema theatres across the country, could be screened even in the theatres in Jammu and rest of the state.

''I would meet agitators, the administrative officers along with film director K K Yadav and other members of unit to ensure the screening of the movie in my home city,'' she said.

She said, ''the people opposing me and my debut movie don't know any thing about the story. No body knows what torture I faced in police the lock-up.'' ''What I went through was hell and reliving it again for the film was equally tortuous, but today I am happy that it will help others to save themselves from something, that pushed me to the stage that I did not want to live at all,'' Anara said.

Former Miss Jammu said she wanted people in her home town to know the reality and not what media has portrayed.

She said the hard work put in during the making of the film and the support of her close ones had rebuilt the confidence in her to live once again.

Anara who won the Miss Jammu title in 2001, hit the headlines after her arrest on October 24, 2004 for her alleged involvement in a Porno-CD case.

She was kept in custody and made to confess before the media about her acting in the blue film and under what circumstances she had done so.

She, however, charged the police for framing her and as a result more than half a dozen policemen including two senior officers were suspended for harassing and torturing her.

A court acquitted her after a forensic laboratory in Hyderabad cleared that the girl in the pornographic film was not Anara Gupta.

UNI