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The shooting of Kathryn Bigelow's film on Osama bin Laden here to depict killing of the al Qaeda leader in Abbottabad was stalled by VHP activists who objected to hoisting of Pakistani flags.
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The crew was forced to cancel the shoot and move the cameras away after the protests when a few scenes of the film was being recreated by the Oscar-winning director at Manimajra
town on the outskirts of the city.
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Activists of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) led by Vijay Singh Bhardwaj forcefully disrupted the shooting and removed the sign boards put in Urdu on few shops, a crew member said,
adding the cameramen were also allegedly pushed and abused.
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They raised slogans against Pakistan and removed its flags put in place to recreate the actual spot in Abbotabad where US commandos killed the dreaded al Qaeda leader in a helicopter raid on May 2, 2011.
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After the melee, the VHP activists went to police to register a formal complaint against the film's director.
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Bigelow later said no Pakistani flag will be put in place at the shooting areas.
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Station House Officer (SHO) Rajesh Shukla assured VHP activists that Pakistani flags will not be permitted at the shooting locales after which they dispersed. No case has been registered.
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The film's crew has been shooting in prominent markets at the Punjab Engineering College here and at Patiala with shop boards in Urdu, auto-rickshaws with Lahore number plates, burqa-clad women and men in shalwar-kameez, chappals and skullcaps.
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The title of the film is being kept as a closely guarded secret but for now it is being talked about as 'Zero Dark 30'.
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Activists of right-winged Vishwa Hindu Parishad, or World Hindu Council, protest during the shoot of a film about Osama bin Laden by Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow in Chandigarh, March 2, 2012.
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The VHP activists protested against the hoisting of Pakistani flags during the shooting of the film, according to a news agency. Bigelow and cast are in India shooting at various locations over the next few weeks.
