Now, Mohanlal booked for promoting smoking in posters

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The health department on Thursday registered a case against actor Mohanlal, for appearing with a tobacco product in the posters of his new movie 'Karmayodha'. The actor plays the role of an encounter specialist Madhava Menon in the movie, to be released on Friday. The posters show Mohanlal holding a cigar in one hand and a hipflask in the other.
The department had on Wednesday booked actor Mythili, director Aneesh Upasana and managing director of the distribution firm Prashanth Narayan for posters of Matinee, showing the actor smoking a cigarette. The case has been posted on March 18. Besides Mohanlal, movie director Major Ravi and the managers of the distribution firm, theatres Nila, Sreekumar and Sreevisakh have also been booked under section 22 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003.