Although, the whole film fraternity stand together and is condemning the decision to cut ‘Punjab’ from the title.
Director Karan Johar took a firm stand for the film and said that “film portrays the reality and compromising with it is completely delusional”
As the trailer of the film was released, it made obvious for everyone that film will brew some controversy and that’s what the team has to face right now.
Known for his reality based films, director anurag kashyap tweeted, that Udta Punjab is an honest film and anyone who opposes it is equally guilty of promoting drugs!
And to this tweet , Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal completely agrees! Arvind Kejriwal retweeted the tweet and wrote his consent!
Hansal Mehta also expressed his anger against this controversy started by the Censor Board.
Not only Bollywood but, sports persons are criticizing the removal of word ‘Punjab’ from the film. Cricketer Sir Ravindra Jadeja felt sad and said “Its Perfectly fine for them if a state is ruined by drugs?”
Though due to this decision, Pahlaj Nihlani, head of Central board of film certification has to face a lot of criticism but Ashok Pandit, member of CBFC has some different views on the matter.
Ashok Pandit clearly told ANI, that if there are 89 cuts in #udtapunjab, film clearly loses its impression.
This is not for the first time that censor board has asked for the removal of a particular word, film Billu Barber also had to face the same situation and at last film was released with the name of ‘Billu.’
Well, we all wish that the audience gets to see the uncut version of the film with title #UdtaPunjab.