Recently, Adirindi, the dubbed version of Tamil hit Mersal, became the eye of the storm for its dialogues mocking the government’s GST regimen. After much controversy, although the Tamil version got a clearance, the censor board asked the distributors of the Telugu version to edit out the dialogues. Now, another film, Indrasena, is facing the same problem.
What’s surprising is that the film just used the word GST in a song and there is no reference or comment whatsoever about the taxing system. However, it looks like censor officials have got clear orders from the high command to omit anything remotely close to the word. Neelam Krishna Reddy, who bought the Telugu distribution rights confirms the news: “It’s not even a reference of GST; we have just used the word in a song. We had to replace GST with EMI.” It is believed that the producer argued with the censor officials for hours on end, but they finally got the upper hand.
