Saturday, 9th April 2016, 2:40 PM IST
Recently, the Examining Committee (EC) of CBFC saw Sunny Deol starrer ‘Mohalla Assi’ and has refused to certify the film which is directed by one of the board members Dr Chandraprakash Diwedi.
The trailer of the film was leaked last year and it was filled with cuss words and featured an explicit sex scene.
While Diwedi refused to comment on it, Ashoke Pandit, another member of the Board, said, "The CBFC can suggest cuts or certify a film as 'U', 'U/A' or 'A', but they cannot refuse it a certificate. But what else can you expect from a Chairman (Pahlaj Nihalani) who gives a 'U/A' certificate to a children's film, ‘The Jungle Book’. This is an insult to a National Award winning filmmaker of the calibre of Chadraprakash Diwedi and the film industry in general."
Producer Vinay Tiwari confirmed that CBFC has refused to certify the film and now, they will be approaching the Tribunal directly. Vinay said, "We don't want to go to the Revising Committee (RC) because a couple of months earlier, after our trailer was rejected by the EC, we had approached the RC. Pahlajji had watched it himself and rejected it again. So there's no point going to the RC. I believe that what is happening is because of the differences between Pahalji and Chardraprakash Dwivedi."
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