Manmarziyaan bows to protests, cuts smoking scenes

Producer Aanand L. Rai and director Anurag Kashyap have been forced to cut out scenes showing Abhishek Bachchan smoking in Manmarziyaan and Abhishek is not happy about this.

Former chairperson of the censor board Pahlaj Nihalani is alarmed to hear about the alleged cuts. “If after the censor board had cleared the film with no cuts and the makers have decided to give in to outside pressures and cut scenes then it is a very wrong precedent. Once the censor board clears a film, no power on earth can stop any scenes