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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Bollywood fraternity\u00a0joined hands to counter the Censor Board after the latter made public its decision to make 89 cuts in the \u00a0film Udta Punjab<\/em>. Starring\u00a0Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh and Kareena Kapoor, the film has been produced by Anurag Kashyap\u2019s Phantom Films and Balaji Motion Pictures, and directed by Abhishek Chaubey\u00a0of\u00a0Ishqiya<\/em> and Dedh Ishqiya<\/em> fame. Much of the debate surrounding the\u00a0Censor Board’s proposed cuts\u00a0is centred on the supposed arbitrary nature of its decisions.<\/p>\n Kashyap vs. Censor Board<\/strong><\/p>\n This is not the first time\u00a0Kashyap has locked horns\u00a0with the Censor Board. It\u00a0happened first during the release of\u00a0Paanch<\/em>, his first film, which faced plenty of problems with the Censor Board before it got released eventually. Even in the case of\u00a0Black Friday<\/em> there was a two year gap\u00a0before the film saw light of the day. Ugly<\/em>, another film by Kashyap, faced\u00a0objections\u00a0from the Censor Board because of its smoking scenes.<\/p>\n Kashyap has challenged the\u00a0Board\u2019s orders to make the aforementioned cuts in his next and upcoming movie Udta Punjab<\/em>. One of the major reasons\u00a0why\u00a0the film may have run into choppy waters is because it\u00a0depicts the state of Punjab as afflicted with rampant drug abuse. After approaching the Bombay High Court over\u00a0this issue, Kashyap was given a written text specifying the changes he was supposed to make. Kashyap had previously stated that he had received only verbal intimation. He\u00a0had requested the Court to overrule the Board\u2019s decision to make 94 cuts to the film.<\/p>\n Censor Board’s Take<\/strong><\/p>\n Pahlaj Nihalini, the Censor Board chief, had stated in a newspaper interview that the movie\u2019s depiction of massive drug abuse in Punjab was inaccurate and defamatory of\u00a0the state\u2019s people. He also charged Kashyap with\u00a0trying to stir controversy in order to garner interest for his film. The Board also received support of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which called it a body full of experts and termed it a quasi-judicial body. Among the various changes it had asked the producer to also drop the name Punjab from the film\u2019s title.<\/p>\n Hollywood films censured by Censor Board<\/strong><\/p>\n Hateful Eight<\/em> by Quentin Tarantino was received negatively by the Censor Board and a minute and half\u2019s footage had to be cut from the film. A long kissing scene featuring Monica Bellucci and Daniel Craig in Spectre<\/em>, a James Bond, had to be cut but Danish Girl<\/em>, a film chosen for Oscars, was shown without any cuts. This is quite strange given the fact that the film depicts complete frontal nudity.<\/p>\n Different\u00a0parameters for Bollywood\u00a0and Hollywood<\/strong><\/p>\n As opposed to Hollywood, the rules and regulation for showing films are rather stringent and authorities often object to scenes that they feel are repulsive. In case of films that have graphic content there can be a complete ban. In Hollywood, films are marked a certain way if the authorities feel that it can only be watched by people of a certain age, community or social group. In India the focus is more on social norms and keeping them intact in films. Anything that according to them violates those values and norms has to be either changed or chopped off.<\/p>\n Questions about role of the film industry<\/strong><\/p>\n Regardless of what is being said in the context, Bollywood has shown that it stands firm against what it feels is an injudicious and unjustifiable demand from the Censor Board regarding Udta Punjab. It also showed some steely determination in ending the whole affair in a logical manner.<\/p>\n Some experts have, however, also blamed the film industry for letting the situation escalate. These people have said that previously too the Censor Board had straightaway banned many films \u2013 and thus overstepped its jurisdiction \u2013 but Bollywood never showed such definitive unity back then. They are asking as to why the film industry reacted in such a way about Udta Punjab then. These critics have also pointed out that more often than not the alternative films \u2013 as opposed to their mainstream brethren \u2013 are the ones to feel the Censor Board\u2019s wrath.<\/p>\n Bombay High Court verdict <\/strong><\/p>\n While CBFC chairman Pahlaj Nihalani declared that the Censor board has cleared the movie with 13 cuts under the ‘A’ category, the\u00a0Bombay High Court has openly questioned the Board’s role in this matter. It\u00a0passed the film with a single cut and slight change\u00a0in the disclaimer. This could be regarded as a firm validation of the efforts made by some of the prominent members of the film fraternity against the supposed autocracy of the Censor Board. What remains to be seen is whether this verdict is going to\u00a0have any effect on the way the Board functions and regards the creative freedom of filmmakers.<\/p>\n Udta Punjab<\/em> is due for release on 17 June.<\/p>\n Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n Movies Releasing this Week<\/a> The Bollywood fraternity\u00a0joined hands to counter the Censor Board after the latter made public its decision to make 89 cuts in the \u00a0film Udta Punjab. Starring\u00a0Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh and Kareena Kapoor, the film has been produced by Anurag Kashyap\u2019s Phantom Films and Balaji Motion Pictures, and directed by Abhishek Chaubey\u00a0of\u00a0Ishqiya and Dedh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":58353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11315],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-india"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69241,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58292\/revisions\/69241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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