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Anurag Kashyap's 'solution' to Bollywood's Censor Board woes is epic!

Updated on: 21 June,2016 05:05 PM IST  | 
mid-day online correspondent |

Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap took to Twitter to express his displeasure after hearing about the Censor Board declining certificate to Neeraj Pandey's film 'Saat Uchchakkey'. Here's what he tweeted...

Anurag Kashyap's 'solution' to Bollywood's Censor Board woes is epic!

Anurag Kashyap's 'solution' to Bollywood's Censor Board woes is epic!

Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap says it's time to get 'children' out of India's Censor Board.


Anurag Kashyap
Anurag Kashyap


"Just heard... Another film, Neeraj Pandey's 'Saat Uchakkey', refused certificate. Can we please just go straight to the Tribunal to save time," Kashyap tweeted on Monday night.


"Maybe it's time to get the children out of CBFC and bar them from examining adult films 'Saat Uchakkey', 'Haraamkhor'," he added.

Kashyap, who co-produced 'Udta Punjab', a movie on Punjab's drug menace, fought a battle against the censors.

Also read: Box office: 'Udta Punjab' records 5th highest opening weekend of 2016

The movie could only release once the makers moved the Bombay High Court, which overruled the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)-recommended cuts and cleared it for release with just one cut and three disclaimers.

Also read: 'Udta Mazaak'! 10 funniest reactions to 'Udta Punjab' controversy

After 'Udta Punjab', another of Kashyap's co-production, 'Haraamkhor', faced CBFC's music. The censors said the movie can't be released for its theme of a teacher's love story with his student.

Also read: 'Who is the real Haraamkhor?' Twitterati fume as Censor Board declines to pass film

Now Neeraj Pandey's 'Saat Uchakkey' is said to be in trouble.

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