By Ifham Nizam

Criticizing a recent Government declaration that screening of ‘Adults Only’ movies would be banned, Mangala Samaraweera, MP said that the Rajapaksa Government was now acting like the Taliban.

He said at a press conference in Colombo yesterday,he said that nothing could be as ridiculous as this as the majority of previous award winning movies in the country had adult only themes.

Samaraweera, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party- Mahajana Wing leader said that knowing Cultural Affairs Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena for a long period, he was confident that Yapa doesn’t have a Taliban mentality.

He said popular films like Karumakkarayo, Thunwheni Yamaya and Sudhilage Kathawa could not be viewed if adult theme movies were banned.

There was a big difference between Blue films and Adults only movies and the latter could be categorized according to the audiences’ages. For his part he was certainly against Blue Films.

Samaraweera also questioned Sri Lanka Freedom Party General Secretary Maithripala Sirisena about the SLFP’s reforms scheduled for September 1. He said that he would like to ask Sirisena whether the reforms are going to be based on S. W. R. D. Bandaranaikepolices or that of the Taliban.

To his knowledge the Taliban regime which had no respect for any culture had destroyed Buddha statues to stick with their fundamentalist policies. The present Government seems to be doing things likewise irrespective of culture, ethics and morals.