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Prakash Jha’s Chakravyuh takes digs at the PM & Mahatma Gandhi – lands in fresh trouble
The filmmaker has been asked to make six cuts in his film for various objectionable portions
After declaring Chakravyuh song Tata, Birla a ‘personal attack’, the Central Board of Film Certification has now put pressure on filmmaker Prakash Jha to delete some portions where there is an apparent direct taunt at Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. The line in question – Bahut dekhi teri sardari – is seen by the censor board as a ‘pointed reference’ to the PM, as he is a Sardar belonging to the Sikh community. Click here to read moreClick to Comment
Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana gets U/A certificate
Anurag Kashyap calls the project his first family entertainer
Kunal Kapoor and Huma Qureshi film Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana has received a U/A certificate from the censor board. Click here to read moreNo grand premiere for Kareena Kapoor’s Heroine?
After days filled with Heroine-this and Heroine-that, we are told that Madhur Bhandarkar’s movie won’t have a properly starry premiere, as earlier planned. Why so?
The Kareena Kapoor-starrer Heroine as been coloured with controversy since the day it was announced. Starting with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan being replaced with Bebo, to the censor board frowning upon scenes showcasing KK with the nicotine stick, we’ve had almost a Heroine overdose. Click here to read moreChakravyuh song Tata, Birla is a ‘personal attack: Censor board
We wonder why filmmaker Prakash Jha’s films always run in to some trouble or the other before their release. His latest film Chakravyuh, starring Arjun Rampal, Abhay Deol and Esha Gupta, has courted controversy, too. This time, it’s not for any issue but for a song that names the country’s top industrialists, and also an international one.
Featuring Abhay and sung by Kailash Kher, the song goes thus: Tata, Birla, Ambani aur Bata, sab ne hai desh ko kaata. The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) refused to pass the song not once but twice, as it felt the lyrics seemed like a personal attack. Click here to read more
Featuring Abhay and sung by Kailash Kher, the song goes thus: Tata, Birla, Ambani aur Bata, sab ne hai desh ko kaata. The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) refused to pass the song not once but twice, as it felt the lyrics seemed like a personal attack. Click here to read more
Kareena Kapoor’s smoking scenes allowed, but with statutory warning
Bollywood has mixed reactions to government ruling on smoking scenes in films, but an NGO has asked Heroine director Madhur Bhandarkar to comply with the regulations
B-town’s reaction was mixed Tuesday to the central government informing the Supreme Court that it would permit smoking scenes in films though with a statutory warning: Cigarette smoking is injurious to health. Click here to read moreMalayalam film Papilio Buddha in hot water over Gandhi slight
The South Indian movie has been banned by the censor board for allegedly belittling the Mahatma
Some 64 years after Nathuram Godse’s bullets felled Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Father of our nation, the Mahatma continues to be the subject of attack – on celluloid. Producer Prakash Bare and director Jayan Cheriyan’s Malayalam film Papilio Buddha has been banned by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) on the grounds of denigrating the Mahatma. Click here to read moreRanbir Kapoor’s Barfi! gets U-certificate. Was there ever a doubt?
Filmmaker Anurag Basu, whose earlier films were mostly A-rated, is excited that his film Barfi! has been rated with a generous ‘U’ by the censor board
Director Anurag Basu is on cloud nine after receiving his first ‘U’ certificate from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for Barfi!. Click here to read moreFreida Pinto doesn’t want India to see her sex scenes in Trishna!
The Slumdog Millionaire actor is apprehensive of showing her wild love making scenes with actor Riz Ahmed to her fans in the home country
Frieda Pinto is nervous these days. The dusky beauty, who became the face of Indian cinema on the international map after her Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, is facing a strange dilemma. Click here to read more
