Lagatar24 Desk
Mumbai, June 2: After watching a ‘special screening’ of Akshay Kumar-starrer Samrat Prithviraj on Thursday, the Yogi Adityanath government of Uttar Pradesh announced the film tax-free in the state.
“We announce that the movie ‘Samrat Prithviraj’ will be made tax-free in Uttar Pradesh so that a common man can also watch this movie,” he said.
UP | We announce that the movie 'Samrat Prithviraj' will be made tax-free in Uttar Pradesh so that a common man can also watch this movie: UP CM Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow pic.twitter.com/3cui55yA0O
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) June 2, 2022
Along with CM Yogi, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, Transport Minister Daya Shankar Singh, J P S Rathore, A K Sharma, Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi and others were also present at the screening. Previously on Wednesday, the Yogi government had exempted the film The Kashmir Files from taxation.
Samrat Prithviraj, directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi, will be released on June 3 in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. Earlier Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister, had seen the film and complimented it vehemently.
