It looks like the honourable courts are in no mood to accept Udta Punjab as a model for diminished moral policing. The producers of a movie titled Love Day, chose to go to the courts, after they were denied a censor certificate, using the Udta Punjab example.
The Abhishek Chaubey movie had knocked on the doors of the courts, after the Central Board of Film Ceritification (CBFC) failed the makers. The Bombay High Court subsequently allowed the release of Udta Punjab, after one cut and disclaimers.
However, instead of entertaining their grievance, the court asked the makers of Love Day to go back to the CBFC. Says a source, “The honourable court wanted to know why the makers had approached the court, when they had the option of going to the Film Certificate Appellate Tribunal, after the Examining Committee and Revising Committee of the CBFC had refused certification for the film. The court asked the film’s producers to approach the tribunal for a certificate, and then inform the court.”
This indicates the court’s refusal to engage in censor-based battles. A source from the censor board says, “It seems Udta Punjab was a one-off instance. The courts have made it implicitly clear they have no time for humbug litigation.”
