Hindu activists force Chaplin out of movie

Hindu activists have stymied an effort to put up a statue of Charlie Chaplin for use in a movie, claiming a monument to a non-Hindu close to their temple was offensive.

Hemant Hegde, a filmmaker who was building the 20m statue of the legendary Hollywood comic to use as a backdrop to a dance routine in his new film, told the CNN-IBN news channel he was forced to halt work by a band of Hindu activists at Udupi in Karnataka.