Bahrain, Jul 21 (GDN): A FILM featuring an Osama Bin Laden look-alike has become the second controversial one to be blocked in Bahrain in a week.

Tere Bin Laden (Without You Bin Laden) stars Pakistani pop singer Ali Zafar, who plays a journalist trying to move to the US.

However, he becomes the focus of an international terror investigation when he fakes a Bin Laden video in an attempt to make his name as a news reporter.

A Bahrain Cinema Company (BCC) spokesman told the GDN that the film's main distributor in Dubai had decided not to show it in the Gulf.

"Once it's banned in Dubai, which is one of the advanced and modern city-state in the GCC, it's obviously banned in other Gulf countries," he told the GDN.

The distributor, Al Mansoori Video, is the same company that pulled the plug on screenings of controversial Bollywood film Lamhaa (The Moment), which spotlights life in Kashmir, across the Gulf last week.

"Our main distributor is Al Mansoori Video, which decided not to release these two movies in Dubai and other Gulf countries," added the BCC spokesman.

"There is always a reason when any movie is banned.

"These movies can cause lot of problems and conflict among people."

A Dana Cinema official confirmed it too would not be screening the film, which was released last Friday by Walwater Media.

An Al Mansoori Video spokesman confirmed the films were not being distributed here, but would not comment further.

Lamhaa director Rahul Dholakia earlier told AFP that he had been shocked by the decision not to screen his film in the Gulf, saying it was about "peace and brotherhood".

That film, which was also released last Friday stars veteran actor Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu and Kunal Kapoor.