Click to play videoNew Delhi: The National Commission for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes has asked the Censor Board to defer the release of Prakash Jha's contentious film Aarakshan saying it will create communal disharmony. The NCSCST also said some dialogues and sequences in the movie are objectionable.
The commission will be meeting later on Wednesday to decide on the fate of the film. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the commission is likely to give its go-ahead to the film after suggesting a few changes. But censor board chief Leela Samson said Aarakshan has been cleared.
Samson said that there was no question of delaying its release. The commission had earlier expressed its reservations about the movie as it was believed to be anti-Dalit. Sources also said the SC/ST commission will suggest deleting scenes in the movie which they find objectionable.
Meanwhile, senior Maharashtra minister and OBC leader Chaggan Bhujbal expressed objection to certain scenes and dialogues in Aarakshan.
"Some scenes and dialogues in the film are objectionable and the film can be released after deleting them," Bhujbal said after a special screening of the film was arranged by the director here last night. A final decision on the issue would be announced Wednesday after discussing it with leaders of other parties, he said.
Maharashtra minister Shivajirao Moghe and Varsha Gaikwad were present at the screening held in a South Mumbai theatre. The film, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, Manoj Bajpai, Deepika Padukone and Prateik Babbar among others in pivotal roles, has kicked up a controversy for its alleged anti-reservation stand. It is set to hit the screens this Friday.
The Bombay High Court has already cleared the release of the movie, rejecting a demand for the special screening before its release.
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