Andhra HC asks Censor Board to clarify stand on The Dirty Picture

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to come out with its stand regarding stalling the release of Ekta Kapoor's The Dirty Picture.

Vadlapatla Naga Prasad, the younger brother of the late actress, has asked the censor board not to clear the Vidya Balan-starrer for release. Prasad has claimed Smitha's character, played by Vidya, portrays her as a woman of loose morals through indiscriminate sex scenes.

Prasad has charged the filmmakers with filling the film with unrealistic and obscene scenes rather than trying to portray the true picture. He said that the filmmakers hadn't even spoken to him to get to know the real Smitha. Prasad insisted that her private life was different from what it is being portrayed in the film.

Although Prasad claimed that he had served a notice to the Censor Board asking it not to certify the film at all, B Mayur Reddy, counsel for the Censor Board told the Court that they had not received any such notice.

Justice Vilas V Afzalpurkar of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, while asking the petitioner to serve a copy to the counsel, directed the Censor Board to clear its stand within a week and deferred the case to coming Wednesday.

The Dirty Picture, produced by Balaji Telefilms and directed by Milan Luthria stars Vidya Balan, Emraan Hashmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Tusshar Kapoor among others, and is scheduled for release on 2 December.

Source: http://cablequest.org/news/legal-news/item/710-andhra-hc-asks-censor-board-to-clarify-stand-on-the-dirty-picture.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/legal-news/item/710-andhra-hc-asks-censor-board-to-clarify-stand-on-the-dirty-picture.html