 This followed artist Josef Ng's 1994 performance "Brother Cane", in which he bared his buttocks and trimmed his pubic hair to protest media coverage of an anti-gay operation in 1992.In 2000, the NAC objected to theatre group Agni Kootthu's planned staging of Elangovan's play "Talaq", a one-woman show about an Indian Muslim woman's divorce, which had already been staged twice.They suggested that Agni Kootthu arrange a preview of the play for selected persons so that their recommendations would help the Public Entertainment Licence Unit (PELU) to decide on the licence application.