Explain 'Udta Punjab' Cuts, HC Asks Censors

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The Bombay High Court on Thursday questioned the Central Board of Film Certification about the reason for seeking deletion of words like `Punjab', `MLA', `election' from the movie `Udta Punjab'. Hearing a petition filed by filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's Phantom Films challenging the cuts ordered by the censor board, a division bench of Justice Satyaranjan Dharmadhikari and Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi said that there is a fine line between creative freedom and the rules. Here's a report.