--- description: Hafiz Saeed, the subject of a $10 million bounty offered by the U.S., says the Bollywood movie will "poison the minds" of Pakistanis. title: Terrorist Gets Film Banned Because It Makes Him Look Bad image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0822757cdd4b9e71/69886058cf40a8734cc3f563/rtr4xwqj.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Pakistan](/tag/pakistan/) ## Pakistan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # A Pakistani Terrorist Got a Bollywood Film Banned for Showing Him in a Bad Light by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 21, 2015 6:34 AM CUT  Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the Jamat-ud-Dawa religious party, addresses the Harmain Sharifain Conference in support of the Saudi Arabian government in Peshawar April 19, 2015. Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the Jamat-ud-Dawa religious party, addresses the Harmain Sharifain Conference in support of the Saudi Arabian government in Peshawar April 19, 2015.Fayaz Aziz—Reuters by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 21, 2015 6:34 AM CUT An Indian movie set to be released next week was [banned in Pakistan](http://www.ptinews.com/news/6402925%5FPak-court-bans--Phantom--on-Hafiz-Saeed-s-plea-.html "undefined") on Thursday at the behest of wanted terrorist Hafiz Saeed, who filed a plea in court saying the film contains “filthy propaganda” against him and his organization. The order to ban the film was issued by a judge at the Lahore High Court, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Saeed is the head of Jamaat-ud-Dawa — the political wing of militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Both organizations are blacklisted by the U.S., which has a [$10 million bounty](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-17594018 "undefined") on Saeed. The U.N. declared Lashkar-e-Taiba a terrorist group in 2005. The movie, titled _Phantom_, features Bollywood superstars Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif and is set in the aftermath of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks that Saeed is said to have been the driving force behind. The attacks killed more than 150 people. “There is a direct threat to the life of the petitioner and his associates emanating from the content of the trailer of the film,” Saeed’s lawyer said in an Aug. 8 petition. “It is obvious that dialogues coming out of the lips of the different Indian actors and actresses will poison the minds of Pakistani public and will portray Hafiz Saeed as terrorist even though JuD has not been declared as a proscribed organization,” he added. The ban comes at a tense time for the adversarial South Asian neighbors, with an upcoming meeting between the Indian and Pakistani National Security Advisers clouded by Pakistan’s [invitation to three separatist leaders](http://www.ndtv.com/cheat-sheet/tense-build-up-to-india-pakistan-talks-on-the-weekend-10-developments-1209493?pfrom=home-lateststories "undefined") from the long-disputed border region of Kashmir. Indian films seen as anti-Pakistan have been banned in the past, but pirated versions are often easily available on DVD. _Read next:_ [_YouTube Opens Studio In Bollywood_](http://time.com/4003815/youtube-studio-bollywood/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day_](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4005860/bollywood-film-banned-hafiz-saeed-pakistan-india/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4005860/bollywood-film-banned-hafiz-saeed-pakistan-india/"},"headline":"A Pakistani Terrorist Got a Bollywood Film Banned for Showing Him in a Bad Light","datePublished":"2015-08-21T06:34:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:20:39.102Z","description":"The film will \"poison the minds\" of his fellow Pakistanis, Hafiz Saeed insists","url":"https://time.com/4005860/bollywood-film-banned-hafiz-saeed-pakistan-india/","keywords":["Pakistan","India","film","Bollywood","2008"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0822757cdd4b9e71/69886058cf40a8734cc3f563/rtr4xwqj.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0822757cdd4b9e71/69886058cf40a8734cc3f563/rtr4xwqj.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the Jamat-ud-Dawa religious party, addresses the Harmain Sharifain Conference in support of the Saudi Arabian government in Peshawar","caption":"Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the Jamat-ud-Dawa religious party, addresses the Harmain Sharifain Conference in support of the Saudi Arabian government in Peshawar","creditText":"Fayaz Aziz—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/pakistan/","name":"Pakistan"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4005860/bollywood-film-banned-hafiz-saeed-pakistan-india/","name":"A Pakistani Terrorist Got a Bollywood Film Banned for Showing Him in a Bad Light"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Global Risks You Should Care About Right Now","description":"A yearly look ahead about what you should—and shouldn’t—worry about in the geopolitical and economic landscape for 2015","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/PqXWqYtA/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-13T22:16:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PqXWqYtA.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4005860/bollywood-film-banned-hafiz-saeed-pakistan-india/","duration":"PT4M20S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4005860/bollywood-film-banned-hafiz-saeed-pakistan-india/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```