First was their fight against the Central Board of Film Certification, which ordered as many as 89 cuts and an adjustment of the film’s title.
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Screenshots of the movie have been doing the rounds of social media since Wednesday, after a torrent file of the film was supposedly leaked.
‘Udta Punjab’ has finally released in the screens today.
She alleged that it (Udta Punjab controversy) was a clearcut attempt to vilify the state and spread false views about it and said, One knows who has funded the film. “The Udta Punjab producers had come to the censor office with their legal counsel”. He, his Congress and AAP are the only ones who have been talking of showing this film uncensored to people.
Investigators said they have obtained “some leads” in the leakage of the film in the centre of a debate on creative freedom of filmmakers.
“Youngsters are eager to see “Udta Punjab”. It is the more serious as someone seems to have purposely leaked the version with a clearly ulterior political motive”, he added. The film starring Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Diljit Dosanjh netted in around Rs 10 crore on its opening day. Co-produced by Phantom Films and Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Motion Pictures, “Udta Punjab” stars Shahid as a drug-addicted rock star and Alia as a Bihari migrant. So all downloaders of Udta Punjab, I urge, wait till Saturday till you decide to not pay for the film, don’t download and share, curb the curiosity for two more days.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay the release of upcoming film “UdtaPunjab”.
The Udta Punjab opening collections had made the movie makers happy, especially the Producer and director have expressed their joy over the performance of the film on the opening day.
Ekta Kapoor during a press conference in Mumbai on June 14, 2016. “I just hope the film is consumed as a film and not as whatever people expect it to be based on the hype and the news cycles”.
The distributors might not be elated with the initial response, but movie-goers have been full of praise about the Abhishek Chaubey directorial.
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Asked to comment on the matter, Aamir told select media here on the sidelines of the shooting of “Dangal”: “If it’s not confirmed (whether censor board itself has leaked it film), I can’t comment on it”.
