Will Padmaavat release despite many state bans?
Bollywood industry's filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat has been banned in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana despite CBFC clearing the film with a U/A certificate and modifications. Now the producers of the Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor, Ranveer Singh starrer have moved Supreme Court against the ban.
Meanwhile according to the producers, there cannot be blanket bans across states when the makers have followed all of CBFC’s suggestions and changed the name of the film as well. Further according to previous Supreme Court precedent, states should only restrict screenings where clear law and order situation exists.
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a Supreme Court bench headed by CJI Deepak Mishra will hear the petition today.
Accordingly Padmaavat been embroiled in controversies since its inception
ranging from vandalism of the film’s sets to protests against imagined dream
sequences and insult to Rajput pride.