‘Barbie’ release delayed in Punjab over ‘objectionable content’
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The "Barbie" film's release was delayed in Pakistan's Punjab province Friday over "objectionable content", officials said.
"There will be a full review of the film, and it will be censored where deemed necessary," Farrukh Mahmood, secretary of the Punjab Film Censor Board, told AFP.
He said that the fantasy-comedy film, which stars Margot Robbie as the famous doll and Ryan Gosling as her boyfriend Ken, will be cleared for screening once the review and censoring process is complete.
The board did not clarify which content was "objectionable", or why.
While fans in Pakistan's most populous province will have to wait to watch "Barbie", the film was due to be screened on Friday in the capital Islamabad and the southern province of Sindh, where it was cleared by the respective censor boards.
"I have been looking forward to watching Barbie for months. It makes no sense that it's ok to be shown in Karachi or Islamabad, but not Lahore," Nousheen Saad, a resident of Punjab's capital city of Lahore told AFP.