{"id":24562,"date":"2017-08-20T17:12:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T11:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=24562"},"modified":"2017-08-20T17:14:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T11:44:58","slug":"smriti-irani-got-sacked-not-clearing-indu-sarkar-without-cuts-pahlaj-nihalani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/art-and-culture-news\/smriti-irani-got-sacked-not-clearing-indu-sarkar-without-cuts-pahlaj-nihalani\/","title":{"rendered":"Smriti Irani got me sacked for not clearing \u2018Indu Sarkar\u2019 without cuts: Pahlaj Nihalani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sacked censor board chief also alleged Anurag Kashyap of manipulating the Board to get his film \u2018Gangs of Wasseypur\u2019 passed with cuss words<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A week after getting sacked as the chief of Central Board of Film Certification, Pahlaj Nihalani has accused Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani of getting him sacked for not clearing the film \u2018Indu Sarkar\u2019 without cuts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an interview to YouTube channel Lehren TV, Nihalani said, \u201cIndu Sarkar was the main issue behind my removal as I didn&#8217;t clear the film without cuts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cShe (Irani) gave me a call asking why I hadn\u2019t cleared Indu Sarkar. I said, I was following guidelines and now the film is already with the Tribunal. I told her if she wants she can get it cleared from the Tribunal. I wasn\u2019t massaging her ego and it was only a matter of time before I was thrown out,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nihalani\u2019s tenure as CBFC chief, which started in January last year, was marked by criticism and he was accused of morally policing films by demanding multiple cuts. Among the several films that faced Nihalani\u2019s brunt, Udta Punjab was the most controversial. The censor board had ordered 89 cuts in the film that focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/Punjab\"><strong>Punjab<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s drug menace and was to be released months before state assembly election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sacked chief now alleges that the ministry told him not to pass \u2018Udta Punjab\u2019. &#8220;I&#8217;m revealing it for the first time that I &amp; B Ministry told me not to pass the film. There was pressure from many places to not pass it. After that, the revising committee gave it a date, and I passed Udta Punjab but with guidelines,&#8221; Nihalani is heard saying in the video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the video, Nihalani also claims that ministry had asked him not to pass <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/Salman-Khan\"><strong>Salman Khan<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s \u2018Bajrangi Bhaijaan\u2019 because of its title. &#8220;I got a call from the ministry to not release the film on Eid because of its title as the ministry thought that the film was about love jihad,\u201d adding,\u201d But I&#8217;d heard the script before and the film&#8217;s writer was also writing a film for me at the time. It was an advanced letter. Later, I wrote letters to the ministry asking them to see the film according to the guidelines.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He claimed even though he had gone out of his way to get the film passed, Salman Khan and film\u2019s director Kabir Khan had made him the villain. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apart from the ministry, Nihalani also made allegations against film maker Anurag Kashyap saying he manipulated the board to get \u2018Gangs of Wasseypur\u2019 certified with the cuss words. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The sacked censor board chief also alleged Anurag Kashyap of manipulating the Board to get his film \u2018Gangs of Wasseypur\u2019 passed with cuss words A week after getting sacked as the chief of Central Board of Film Certification, Pahlaj Nihalani has accused Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani of getting him sacked for not clearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1503],"tags":[22],"yst_prominent_words":[16965,16956,16962,16957,16955,16952,16960,16961,16951,4390,16954,16958,16966,16953,8438,16964,16267,13050,16959,16950],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/08\/nihalani.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24562"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24562"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=24562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->