After receiving rave reviews for the trailer of her maiden production NH10, Anushka Sharma has run into a spot of bother.
Seems, she didn't see this problem coming.
SpotboyE.com has it that the CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification) has decided that the film will not be given a censor certificate until all the foul language in the film is cleaned up.
There are at least three instances in the film, as seen in its trailer, where expletives are uttered- one each by Anushka, Neil Bhopalam (of Shaitaan) and Darshan Kumar (of Mary Kom).
The other abuses too, if any, will have to be edited.
A few days ago, CBFC issued a total ban on cuss words in Indian films.
In an interview to SpotboyE.com on January 27, the new CBFC Chairman Pahlaj Nihalani had firmly said that he will not allow the usage of abusive language in movies.
Excerpts from the interview:
SpotboyE.com: What is this policy of 'no cuss words' which you are implementing?
Nihalani: Cuss words are never supposed to make it to the movies. I don't know how they became so rampant in our films. Why are we hell bent on showing foul language in cinema which is a widely travelling medium? Is it necessary for millions of people to know that a certain sect of people in our country utter abuses indiscriminately?
SpotboyE.com: Some filmmakers believe that certain subjects become dilute otherwise...
Nihalani: Rubbish. Gaali dene se you drive your point home, else you can't? Did Guru Dutt and Yash Chopra need expletives in their films to say what they want to? Do I need to tell you which movies Hrishikesh Mukherjee made and what was their success rate?
Not so long ago, CBFC deleted cuss words from R Balki's Shamitabh and Sriram Raghavan's upcoming film Badlapur.
Gone are the days when beeps were given over the cuss words. Nowadays, filmmakers are told in no uncertain terms to change the objectionable lines.
The million-dollar question is: Was the NH10 trailer, which is now up on the Internet, ready before this ditkat came into implementation?