PTI
 
Ahmedabad, Jun 6: After the Supreme Court issued directions to the Gujarat government to provide police protection to theatres screening 'Fanaa', a theatre in Jamnagar will release the film despite a decision by cinema and multiplex associations not to show the movie

"On the demand of the people of Jamnagar, we have decided to release Fanaa today and will screen three shows daily," said the manager of Ambar theatre Mansur Sheikh while talking to PTI over phone.

"After Supreme Court's order yesterday, we had asked for police protection and the administration has provided us with it," Sheikh said.

"We had put up the posters of Fanaa long back and had not pulled them when the controversy surrounding Aamir was at its peak," he said.

"Jamnagar is a silent city and we are not expecting any trouble," Sheikh said when quizzed as to if there was an opposition to the theatre's decision.

"People in the city had long been demanding the release of the movie and we could not screen the movie earlier," he added.

Ambar is slated to become the first theatre in Gujarat after all the multiplexes and the theatre owners decided not to release Fanaa after the film's star Aamir Khan made controversial remarks regarding Narmada Dam.