‘A’ Certificate for ‘Fashion’

Bollywood Film Director Madhur Bhandarkar is  upset that the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has given his next film Fashion an "Adults-Only" certificate. reported NDTV

"Given the movie’s theme, I certainly never expected that the board would give it a ‘U’ certificate, but I was sure it would receive a U/A certificate," Madhur Bhandarkar said.

Bhandarkar, who has co-produced the film with UTV Motion Pictures and has  described Fashion as his most glamorous film. Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, Arjan Bajwa and Mugdha Godse to do lead roles in the film.

The board members watched the film on 13th oct in Mumbai, objected to six scenes including Priyanka Chopra and Arjun’s lovemaking scenes and Priyanka and Kangana’s dragging at drugs scenes. The censor board members asked Bhandarkar and his co-producer, Ronnie Screwvala, to remove them from the movie.

Since the director refused to delete the scenes, the board has given it an ‘A’ certificate.

Bhandarkar’s argument that the scenes being objected to are an integral part of the movie and that yanking those off would mean compromising with the realistic depiction of the movie’s subject The members refused to be convinced by this .

"Although we had the option of appealing to the Revising Committee of the board against the Examining Committee’s decision, we chose not to do so as that would have taken a lot of time. Besides, there was no knowing what would be the decision of the Board’s higher committee," Bhandarkar said.

Fashion, which highlights  the other side of the fashion world, is due for release Oct 29.