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Director Abhishek Chaubey’s Udta Punjab grabbed the headlines the whole week, and now comes the news that will sooth some really frenzied nerves. After introducing 89 cuts ( now isn’t that a monumental number!) in the movie for the CBFC apparently had a problem with anything that was revolving around Punjab, Politics and polls. From the use of expletives to showing the protagonist urinating on the audience to portraying the state of Punjab in a bad light allegations were many against the movie and its allegedly controversial content but the news that has trickled which is going to give producer Anurag Kashyap an instant relief. The film has been passed by CBFC with an A certificate! ALSO READ: Forget Udta Punjab! Censor Board should have chopped these Bollywood songs without a second thought!
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting had hit back at producer film maker Anurag Kashyap, after the latter compared India with the totalitarian North Korean regime. Rajyavardhan Rathore reprimanded Kashyap for his blunt tweets after the was advised 89 cuts to temper down its language and the apparent ‘violence’ in the film. Saying that India was a democracy and that people have the right to vote here, Rathore explianed government’s stance, saying that if the film maker was unsatisfied with the Censor Board’s work, he can appeal before the Appelate Tribunal. Mercifully, the film now has been passed with A certificate.
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