On Saturday at around 9.10pm, two unidentified persons hurled petrol bombs outside the Kalyan cinema hall during the screening of Padmaavat in Thane district; however, it failed to explode. According to police, the Bhanu Sagar cinema hall at Kalyan was screening Padmaavat when two unidentified bike-borne persons hurled petrol bombs outside the theatre leading to scare among the moviegoers. Also read Padmaavat Row: SIT set to probe schoolbus attackReportedly, the film theatre is located near a gas station and situation could have been worse if the bomb had exploded. "It was a pretty big bomb and its impact could have been severe had it exploded," said a witness outside the cinema hall. Also read Prasoon Joshi skips ZEE JLF amid Padmaavat rowThe protests against the Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus refuse to die down.

Source: dna January 28, 2018 01:07 UTC