New Delhi: The Supreme Court has decided not to interfere in relation to the release of the film in the ongoing disturbance on the release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s controversial upcoming directorial Padmavati.
A bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said that the film has not received certification from the Central Board of Film Certification so far.
The Bench comprising of Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and DY. Chandrachud said that In this writ petition our intervention will be for pre-judgment, which we are not interested in doing so, while Responding to the petition filed by the lawyer M.L. Sharma stated before the court that the censor board has not given the certificate to the film, the songs of the movie has already been released.
The Sharma had approached the court for seeking a direction for removal of all scenes of Rani Padmavati’s alleged “character assassination” before the film was released. The CBFC canceled the application of the makers of ‘Padmavati’ to accelerate the authentication process of the film.
The sensor board said that Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Magnum-Opus, which has been stuck in many controversies over its story and concept, will be reviewed and certified according to the set standards of the following chronological order of all applications.
The date of the release of ‘Padmavati’, in which the role of Rani Padmavati as the name of Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor with Maharawal Ratan Singh and Ranvir Singh has been presented as Sultan Alauddin Khilji, has not yet been announced. The film was initially expected to release on December 1.