Under My Burkha’ cleared for screening

MUMBAI: Director Alankrita Shrivastava is happy that her film Lipstick Under My Burkha, which explores women’s sexuality, has finally been cleared for screening.

The Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT) directed the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to grant an ‘A’ certificate to the Prakash Jha-produced movie.

The board had earlier refused certification

LOS ANGELES: Actor Karen Gillan says her character Nebula in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise was supposed to die at the end of the first movie.

The 29-year-old, who plays the blue-skinned alien assassin in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, is grateful that her character Nebula lived on as she’s in the sequel, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“It was a surprise for me because when I read the script for the first movie my character died in it. And then when we got close to shooting that, suddenly her ending was rewritten, and then it was rewritten again,” Gillan told Radio Times magazine.

“So I just didn’t know what was going on. And then she didn’t die in to the film, saying that it was “lady oriented” and had “sexual scenes, abusive words”. Alankrita says she is happy that the tribunal understood the intent of the film.

The FCAT directed the censor board to clear the film with “some voluntary and some additional cuts” while observing that the cuss words and intimate scenes shown in the movie were integral to the storyline.

the first movie and I was really excited about that,” she added.

Gillan sees a lot of possibilities for Nebula in the Avengers franchise and the third instalment of “Guardians” movie. She hopes the character gets to fulfil her wish to murder her stepfather Thanos in one of the stories.

“I thought I would be coming back but then when I read the script for the second film I saw all the stuff that I got to do and all the emotional stuff and I was just really excited. I would like to see Nebula be embraced into the ‘Guardians’ family.”