‘We were shocked to hear the language in this film’
Appalled by the cusswords in the Hindi film, the Censor Board has recalled the Telugu version of At times, it feels as if the film is a documentary based on the Himalayas
The colourful expletives in K.C. Bokadia’s Dirty Politics in Hindi may not be heard in Telugu at all. The Censor Board Of Film Certification ( CBFC) has recalled the film’s Telugu version on the basis of the lurid content in the Hindi original.
Says a source from the CBFC, “We were shocked to hear the language in Dirty Politics. The dialogues were unnecessarily coarse, laced with foul language. Mallika Sherawat was heard using the expletive ‘ch***ya’ on more than one occasion in
Nani, Malavika Nair, Vijay and Nasser
Naga Ashwin Yevade Subramanyam has given Nani the break he was looking for the last couple of years. The film is directed by debutant Naga Ashwin. Malavika Nair has also made her Telugu debut with the film and producer Ashwini Dutt’s daughter Priyanka Dutt is the producer.
Subramanyam (Nani) is an aspiring businessman. He is a practical man and believes that bank balance, status and bungalows are important things in life.
He works in Pasupathi Industries owned by Pasupathi (Nasser), a man who wants to buy the shares of Ramayya Company, the film. The justification given was that she plays a crude rustic politician. Even Shabana Aazmi played a crude rustic politician in Godmother. She wasn’t heard using such words.”
The Telugu version of Dirty Politics is to be released next month. And producer-director K.C. Bokadia may have landed himself in a soup by releasing the Hindi film first. The content is now in public domain and the CBFC is none too pleased with the language.
“We will only allow language that is suitable. And if cutting cusswords doesn’t affect the flow of the narrative, they will have go. No matter what,” the source added.