Emergency: Makers of Kangana film tell court certificate issues sorted with CBFC

The makers of the film ‘Emergency’ told the Bombay High Court on Friday that all issues pertaining to the film’s certification have been sorted out by them with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
However, formalities for the same will take some time and CBFC told the bench of Justices BP Colabawalla and Firdosh Pooniwalla that it would take about 14 days to hand over the certificate to the filmmakers.
Advocate Sharan Jagtiani for the filmmakers handed over a note to the bench and said, “We have worked it out. If it meets your lordship’s approval, then we can go ahead with this.” Advocate Abhinav Chandrachud, appearing for the CBFC, was also present.
The bench said that it would then not go into the merits of the case and would pass an order and dispose of the petition based on the terms agreed upon by the filmmakers and CBFC.
A detailed order will be passed in due course.
There are some insertions and cuts of some words that the filmmakers will be undertaking and then will send the film for final certificate again. The CBFC will then hand over a certificate for its theatrical release.
The film ‘Emergency’ was to release on September 6, and it was earlier submitted that about 1800 theaters had been booked and there was lots riding on the release of the film.
The CBFC had earlier already given a U/A certificate to the filmmakers, but when some groups of Sikh community members had approached the Madhya Pradesh High Court where the Union Government had submitted that the certificate had not been issued to the film. Owing to this submission, the Madhya Pradesh High Court directed the CBFC to consider the representation of the community who had seen some trailers of the film and formed an opinion that the film showed the community in a bad light.
The CBFC had then formed a revising committee which then suggested some more cuts and Ranaut is currently still in talks with CBFC to complete the formalities so that the film can be released.
The film’s co-producer Manikarnika will carry out the changes and submit the revised master copy of the film to the CBFC within 30 days. The CBFC, upon receipt of the revised master copy of the film and after verifying the changes/ modifications/ excisions/ cuts carried out, will take a decision. CBFC will have about 14 days to take a decision on the certification of the film.