Taapsee Pannu''s `Thappad'' gets tax waiver in MP

    Indore, Feb 25 (PTI) The Congress government in Madhya
Pradesh on Tuesday announced a three-month exemption from the
State Goods and Services Tax (SGST) to the upcoming Taapsee
Pannu-starrer film "Thappad".
    The film, directed by Anubhav Sinha, deals with the
issue of domestic violence and is set to release on Friday.
    A top official of the Commercial Tax Department said
the film was exempted from SGST in view of its subject and
message.
    Single-screen cinemas and multiplexes have been asked
not to collect SGST on tickets of the film, the official said.
    At present, film tickets carry 18 percent GST -- SGST
and Central Goods and Services Tax at nine per cent each.
    In the film, Pannu plays an upper-middle class
educated woman who is forced to continue in her marital
relationship even after her husband slaps her.
    Pannu was among members of the film fraternity who had
condemned police crackdown on students of Jamia Milia while
accusing the government of trying to stifle the voices of
dissent against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
    Recently, Deepika Padukone's "Chhapaak" was declared
tax-free in Madhya Pradesh even as BJP supporters called for a
boycott of the film over the actor's support for the students
of Jawaharlal Nehru University who were attacked by masked
goons. PTI HWP ADU MAS
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