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NEW DELHI: Right-wing Hindu activists on Friday disrupted cutting for Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow's cine on the coursing for Osama bin Laden, agitation at the use of Indian locations to portray Pakistan.

Members of the hardline Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) stormed the set in Chandigarh -- the arctic Indian burghal abundantly advised by Swiss-French artist Le Corbusier -- area Bigelow's aggregation had been cutting for four days.

The area was a Chandigarh market, which the assembly aggregation had adapted with shopboard signs in
Urdu, autorickshaws with Lahore cardinal plates and burqa-clad extras.

"They removed signs that had been put up in Urdu and additionally pushed and abused the camera crew. They aloft slogans adjoin Pakistan and forcibly removed some Pakistani flags," a bounded badge administrator told AFP by telephone.

"We don't demand Pakistani flags on Indian clay and we don't accede that Indian markets should attending like Pakistan," said Punjab VHP secretary Ramkrishna Srivastava.

Under the alive appellation "Zero Dark Thirty," Bigelow's latest blur recounts the coursing for bin Laden, which concluded back US appropriate armament raided his cover in the Pakistani billet boondocks of Abbottabad aftermost May, killing the Al-Qaeda leader.

With filming in Pakistan not an option, there has been acute media belief about what locations ability be called by Bigelow, who won the 2010 Oscar for Best Director for "The Hurt Locker".

Indian bi-weekly letters had appropriate she ability attending to charm the afresh burst three-storey bin Laden cover in the arid accompaniment of Rajasthan.

The Indian band assembly aggregation complex in the film, said the cutting in Chandigarh was artlessly aimed at accession "establishing" shots with a Pakistani feel.

"No absolute sets accept been congenital at all. The absolute amusement of Abbottabad will not alike be in India. It's actuality done in Jordan," said a affiliate of the aggregation who beneath to be identified.

He said talks had been captivated with the Hindu protestors to try to defuse the situation.

"We explained that there's annihilation actuality adjoin Hinduism, annihilation adjoin Pakistan. It's aloof a movie," he said.

"Nothing has been shut down. We are still filming and will abide to do so," he added.

Local VHP baton Vijay Bhardwaj said the aggregation had agreed to stop application Pakistani flags on the set.

The blur is appointed to be appear at the end of 2012.