Amitabh Bachchan has yet to reply to the legal notice
Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2006-01-06
Author: Zubair Ahmed BBC News, Mumbai
Intro: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has been threatened with legal action over a film poster that depicts him smoking a cigar.
India's National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication says if Bachchan does not reply to its legal notice in eight days it will take him to court.
The government banned tobacco adverts in 2003 and last year announced strict rules on smoking in films and on TV.
Bachchan is recovering at home from surgery last month.
The National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (Note), a non-governmental organisation, says Bachchan has broken the law.
Its secretary, Shekhar Salkar, told the BBC the film hoarding was of Bachchan's forthcoming film, Family.
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