AGARTALA, Dec 20 (TIWN): In a shocking development it has been reported that violating Country’s highest Court’s order a prominent Cinema hall named Rupasi Cinema Hall at Agartala is not playing national anthem before it begins a movie. As per the Supreme Court’s order issued on Dec 3rd, 2016 it was strictly mentioned that from then the playing of National Anthem is must before the hall start any movie. But violating the order of SC, the Rupasi cinema Hall is spiffily playing the movies there and no one is raising any voice against it.

Reportedly, the Supreme Court asked all cinemas to play the national anthem before a film is screened “for the love of the motherland”, reigniting a debate over whether an increasingly assertive brand of nationalistic pride is stifling civil liberties.

The court banned dramatising, abridging or making money from the 52-second-long Jana Gana Mana and said the national flag, the Tricolour, must be displayed on the movie screen when the anthem is played. Moviegoers must stand up and all doors of cinema halls be closed at such times to stop people moving around. Theatre owners have 10 days to implement the order.

During the hearing justice Dipak Misra said, “ These days, people read things that have nothing to do with nationalism but don’t study material related to nationalism”.

However, in this lawless state it has once again proven that they have no relation with basic duties for the nation.

On the background of the judgment it was also said that The national anthem is already played before movies in some states – such as Maharashtra – but the measure is often controversial, with instances of people beaten up for not standing up for the anthem. In October, a couple assaulted a man at a cinema in Goa for not rising during the national anthem only to discover he was paralytic and on a wheelchair.

 “A time has come the citizens of the country must realise that they live in a nation and are duty bound to show respect to National Anthem which is the symbol of the Constitutional Patriotism and inherent national quality,” it said.

But Tripura Cinema Hall owners have proven themselves as “fearless” and do not bother to abide by any law.