Censor Board suggests 14 cuts for Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Indu Sarkar'

National Award-winning director, Madhur Bhandarkar, who recently screened his upcoming 'Indu Sarkar' for the members of CBFC was left shocked after the Board suggested 12 cuts and two disclaimers for his film.

Talking about the ruling Madhur Bhandarkar said, "It’s absurd that names of political leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Morarji Desai and Lal Krishna Advani that appear in a newspaper that someone is reading doesn’t pass muster, nor does that of Jayaprakash Narayan even when it’s just part of a slogan being shouted. Nor for that matter do references to political terms like ‘Akali’, ‘Communist’ and the organisation RSS. It’s really disappointing. But what’s really mind-boggling is that even Kishore Kumar’s name (the singer’s songs were banned on All India Radio on Doordarshan because he refused to perform at a Congress rally in Mumbai at the time) needs to be dropped."

According to the diktat, lines like "Ab iss desh mein Gandhi ke maayne badal chuke hain" and "Bharat ki ek beti ne desh ko bandi banaya hua hai" need to be deleted from the film. However, this is what irks the director as these lines are a part of the trailer and have been playing around. The director exclaimed, "What parameters are they following? What yardstick?"

However, this is not the only battle that Madhur has been fighting, various members of Congress Party across the country have demanded that the state government ban the film. Bogged down but not the one to give up, signing off Madhur asserted, "I will go to the Revising Committee and then the Tribunal. I’m deeply disappointed."

CREDITS: MUMBAI MIRROR