According to Pakistan Censor Board chief Mobashir Hasan, Pari was declared "unfit" for public exhibition as it "flouts various sections of the existing rules and code of the Censor Board" and "innumerable dialogues and scenes are against the established religious, social and moral ethos." 

Prerna Arora of KriArj Entertainment, who has co-produced the film with the lead actor Anushka Sharma's banner Clean Slate Films, says, "They (the Pakistan censor board) seem to be taking random decisions. How do we explain why they would think of Pari as anti-Islamic? Evil, which the film portrays, has no religion." 

"We as a responsible production feel very strongly about causing offence to any community. Earlier, our co-production Pad Man was banned in Pakistan for being anti-Islamic. Now Pari is also anti-Islamic. Can they please define anti-Islamic? I have no doubt Pakistan will find my next release Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran also anti-Islamic," she adds. 

Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran, co-produced by KriArj Entertainment and John Abraham, is about the nuclear test explosions conducted at Pokhran in 1998.