Filmmaker Vishal Bharadwaj is upset and disappointed with the decision of the Censor Board for Film Certification (CBFC), to give an "A" certificate to his film Kaminey, which is releasing next week.
"It was injustice to us. There is no abusive language used in the film and the violence is of ’comic book kind’.
Kaminey is the strongest word used in the entire story. The CBFC has ambiguous categories of rating systems," the director said about the movie, which stars Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra in the lead.
"There is a line in the film where a character is asked where does he come from. The character says Pilibhit. There were no political overtones to the line. But, the Censor Board asked me to edit Pilibhit saying that it is a sensitive constituency," Bharadwaj said.
"They told me to use a fictitious city name. I had to change the city name from Pilibhit to Barabanki," he added.
The 49-year-old director, who is famous for making dark and realistic movies like Maqbool and Omkara said that the provision of U/A certificate to Aamir Khan starrer Ghajini also came up for discussion during the meeting and the Board said it regrets its decision on it.
"After the 26/11 terror attacks and its live coverage on television, violence is all around us and we need to learn to live with it," the filmmaker said.
"They told me to use a fictitious city name. I had to change the city name from Pilibhit to Barabanki," Vishal said.
The filmmaker said he has strived to make an entertaining film by adhering to his sensibilities.
"I consider film making as a work of art rather than a business proposition," he said adding in Kaminey he had tried a new structure of story telling. The filmmaker can surprise the audience with logic," he added.
The Shahid-Priyanka starrer releases on August 14.
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