Censor Board to tell HC today why it doesn't want Punjab in film title

June 10, 2016 09:50

The Bombay High Court will today resume hearing on the petition filed by Phantom Films, producer of 'Udta Punjab', which is aggrieved by an order of the Revising Committee of the Board that suggested changes in the film before its release on June 17.

On Thursday, the rapped court had rapped the Censor Board over the controversy surrounding 'Udta Punjab' and sought an explaination from the CBFC on their insistence of removing 'Punjab' from the title of the film.

Justice Dharmadhikari compared drug-themed 'Udta Punjab' with another film released earlier titled "Go, Goa, Gone" saying in that movie the state of Goa is shown as a place where people go to socialise in parties and also take banned drugs. The Judge also noted that in the past there was a film which dealt with how the town of Moga became a 'cancer town', but the film did not belittle the place. In the same way, how would "Udta Punjab" malign Punjab, the judge sought to know.

Hearing the arguments, the court said that it was not satisfied with the first two suggestions made by the Censor Board in regard to the first two suggestions of the Committee about removing references to places in that state such as Chandigarh, Amritsar, Tarantaran, Jashanpura, Moga and Ludhiana.

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