Mumbai: Actress Kavitta Verma has apologised to the Christian community for her "blasphemous" pose in forthcoming Bollywood movie 'Policegiri', an activist said.
Kavitta's dressing scantily with a rosary on her body and the Holy Cross on her belly had raked up a controversy among Christians last week.
The Christian Secular Forum (CSF) had raised the issue with the movie's producers, TP Aggarwal and Rahul Aggarwal, and the Censor Board, demanding deletion of the offensive scenes from the movie, failing which they would not permit its release next month.
Late Monday, the producers invited CSF general secretary Joseph Dias and others for a meeting along with Verma....
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