Avadh Sharma, producer of Ek Kahani Julie Ki, is upset at the censor board’s handling of the Rakhi Sawant film.
He claims that the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) gave the film a U/A certificate, but later changed it to A. He is contemplating legal action.
Ek Kahani Julie Ki is based on the real-life murder of Sheena Bora. Sawant plays the character of the prime accused, Bora’s mother Indrani Mukherjea. It is produced by Sharma for Chetna Entertainment.
“On 01.09.2016, CBFC has allowed the film for public exhibition under A category by cutting [some] dialogues, which were already censored by CBFC by issuing certificate under U/A category, though we are aggrieved with the arbitrary decision of CBFC and due to paucity of time we accepted the certificate under A category as the film is to be released on 09.09.2016,” Sharma said.
Sharma added: “The way of working of CBFC is totally unfair, unjustified and illegal as they don’t rely upon the certificate already issued by them.” He said they would be taking legal recourse against the CBFC.
Directed by Aziz Zee, Ek Kahani Julie Ki also stars Amit Mehra, Saniya Pannu, Jimmy Sharma and Rajesh Khera. It is scheduled to release in India on Friday.
Sharma also alleged that the “CBFC has no proper mechanism or parameter for certification of a film and the certificates are being issued by them on their will without following law or guidelines”.
Sawant also called a press conference to address the issue on Friday in Mumbai.
