filmmaker Karan Johar called it ” hypocrisy”. ” Sad that despite being acclaimed for its entertaining realism & having won 3 National Awards the regulatory forces have stalled the show,” Tusshar posted.
” A national award winning film cann
ot have a national telecast? This is not an irony but plain and simple hypocrisy! If the censorship is not a final authority then what is? Complicated and blurred lines defeat the core of democracy!” Karan tweeted.
On April 19, a lawyer had filed a plea with the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court seeking a restriction order on a TV channel airing the movie. The court issued notices to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and the Central Board of Film Certification to file a reply by April 20. The court on Saturday allowed Sony and others to go ahead with the scheduled telecast after the respondents informed the court that the Central Board of Film Certification had cleared the film after 56 cuts. Thirty- six of these were cut agreed to by the film producer himself and 22 others as suggested by the Board. A Division Bench of Justice Bhushan Dharmadhikari and Justice Ashok Bhangale denied any interim relief to the city lawyer who had filed the petition seeking a ban on the ground that there were obscene shots in the film.
