Censor wanted me to delete all the maa-bahen ki galis

Censor wanted me to delete all the maa-bahen ki galis
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 13:10 IST
By Subhash K Jha, Santa Banta News Network
/> Sudhir Mishra has just fought a long and hard battle with the censorboard—again!—this time over the content of his latest much-delayed ensemble drama Tera Kya Hoga Johnny.

Apparently the censorboard objected to a sequence showing a police-man trying to rape the young hero (Sikandar Aggarwal) in custody. Sudhir not only put his foot down he refused to cut down the sequence.

Laments the veteran-auteur, "Why does this always happen to me? It's almost as if there's a separate censorship code for me from other filmmakers. Invariably my films get into a situation on matters that are allowed to remain in other people's films."

Sudhir finds it strange that the censors objected to a sequence of atrocity in police custody. "It isn't as if I was showing something that doesn't happen. And I didn't even show the boy being sodomized. I showed the cop attempting it. The boy escapes. But so many real-life under-age delinquents go through unmentionable torture.Are we not supposed to show that?"

In another sequence a cop shoots a man and says it happened because his hand accidently moved on the trigger.

Says Sudhir, "They also wanted me to delete all the maa-bahen ki galis. As if we haven't seen characters abusing in other films! I really don't understand these double standards."

Rather than fight a long battle with the censors Sudhir Mishra agreed to accept an 'Adults' certificate with relatively lesser cuts.

Says Sudhir, "I had two choices. I could fight a battle or accept an 'A' certificate with less cuts. There was no time time for a fight. I took the 'A' certificate. But I feel we need to have more uniform rules of censorship."

On a happier note the film's leading man Neil Nitin Mukesh has finally agreed to do some promotional activities for the film. And yes the film's young protagonist, the real-life street child Sikandar is 19 now.

Says the proud surrogate-father, "Sikandar is good on the computer. He's qualified to take up a job. But he wants to continue living out of my office where I put him up after picking him up from the streets of Kolkata to play a role in my film."
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