Piku cleared without cuts
Shoojit Sircar said none of his three films have run into any trouble with the CBFC
By : subhash k. jha
Update: 2015-04-25 22:41 GMT
The Amitabh Bachchan-Deepika Padukone father-daughter saga Piku has been cleared by the Central Board Of Film Certification with absolutely no cuts. The film, however, has been granted a U/A certificate, which means children can watch the film accompanied by an adult. The development comes as a relief to the film’s makers who were uncertain about Piku’s “toilet jokes” not going down well with the censors.
Director Shoojit Sircar said none of his three films have run into any trouble with the CBFC. “There were no cuts in my last film, Madras Café, in spite of its sensitive political nature. And in my first feature, Vicky Donor, only one word was cut from the entire film, which was ‘vagina’,” he said.
Piku’s producer Pritish Nandy too seemed happy about the certification.
“The Censor Board appears to be far more liberal, at least from what I’ve seen till now. The most innocuous scenes from my films — even the award-winning ones — were chopped by the Censor Board under the previous government. The idea is to certify, not censor. The CBFC is not a nanny. It is a guide,” he said.