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Saturday,10th May 2014, 05:15 PM IST Two films that released this Friday faced last minute hiccups. One of them is Sunil Bohra's controversial biopic on porn writer ‘Mastram’. The film could not be released in Mumbai as the Censor Board didn’t think the film was fit to watch with one’s family, and took time to give a clearance.
Talking about the delay, Sunil Bohra said, "We couldn't release in Mumbai and other places on time on Friday morning, but we managed to release from the 11am show onwards. We got censor clearance too late, just 36 hours before the release. We missed our Friday morning deadline."
The second film is Asshu Trikha's ‘Koyelaanchal’; this film faced serious legal trouble when Jharkhand's infamous coal baron and politician Suryadeo Singh's family moved to Court claiming that Singh had been portrayed in a bad light by the filmmakers.
Trikha, had to rush to Ranchi where the complaint had been registered, to hire local lawyers to combat the last-minute crisis. He said that he will fight out the matter in court. "Nowhere in the film have we said that Vinod Khanna's character of Suryabhan Singh is based on Suryadeo Singh. It's the family's conjecture that we've made a film on Suryadeo Singh and that the character has been portrayed in a bad light," said the distraught filmmaker.
The director further added, "Luckily for us, the Dhanbad court did not grant an injunction to the complainant. So we could release the film. But the matter is now in court and we're prepared to defend our film." Trikha says his script for Koyelaanchal was ready long before ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur’ which also portrayed the criminalised coal mines of Dhanbad. He reasons, “It's all destiny. I had my film scripted six months before the team of 'Wasseypur' even started their research. But my producer suffered a huge personal tragedy.So our film lost time. 'Gangs Of Wasseypur' is now a proclaimed hit. So any comment made on it by me would be redundant. But I do hope I'm in a position to portray a truer picture of the coal mafia in the commercial mould. Rest is up to God.” |