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A group of youth pose for cameras by displaying tickets for Bollywood film "Padmaavat" in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. The film, based on a 16th century Sufi epic poem, has sparked protests and anger due to allegations of distorting history. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
- Rafiq Maqbool
Policemen stand guard as people arrive to watcha Bollywood film "Padmaavat" at a movie theatre in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. The film opens to thin crowds after months of often violent pre-release protests including death threats for the lead actress amid rumors that the film depicted a relationship of some sort between a Hindu queen and a Muslim sultan. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
- Rajanish Kakade
A girl looks from the glass of a door as she waits for a friend at a movie theatre screening Bollywood film "Padmaavat" in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. The film is based on a 16th century Sufi epic poem, Padmaavat, a fictional account of a brave and beautiful Rajput queen who chose to kill herself rather than be captured by the Muslim sultan of Delhi, Allaudin Khilji. The film has been in trouble since the beginning of the year, with fringe groups in the western state of Rajasthan attacking the film's set, threatening to burn down theatres that show it and even physically attacking Bhansali in January. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
- Rafiq Maqbool
Policemen stand guard at a movie theatre screening Bollywood film "Padmaavat" in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. The film, based on a 16th century Sufi epic poem, has sparked protests and anger due to allegations of distorting history. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
- Rafiq Maqbool
A policeman guards as people buy tickets at a movie theatre screening Bollywood film "Padmaavat" in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. The film, based on a 16th century Sufi epic poem, has sparked protests and anger due to allegations of distorting history. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
- Rafiq Maqbool