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This Video Brings To Life Bollywood's Most Violent Fantasy Against Pahlaj Nihalani

This Video Brings To Life Bollywood's Most Violent Fantasy Against Pahlaj Nihalani
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The fact that Udta Punjab has had an elaborate, complex and a tumultuous battle with the Pahlaj Nihalani-led Censor Board has been quite meticulously documented in the past fortnight.

Predictably, the whole episode has also led to multiple spoofs, memes and general mockery of the Censor Board and its bizarre, archaic ways of conducting itself.

But it's this latest clip bludgeoning the Board that is truly gutsy for it brings alive a fantasy that most Bollywood filmmakers must be harboring against the autocratic chief of CBFC.

Also Read: 'Udta Punjab' Cleared With Just One Cut, Bombay High Court Lashes Out At Censor Board

The clip, produced by Postpickle.com, has several obvious real-life references (to Anurag Kashyap, Rohit Shetty, and David Dhawan) and shows Nihalani as a character who's so pro-censorship that he feels offended even when women buy bananas (they're vulgar).

For all it's censorship-related jokes, what makes the clip worth watching is its brutally satisfying end -- all with the soundtrack tuned to Gangs of Wasseypur's now-famous dialogue 'Teri Keh Ke Loonga.'

We're not sure what Pahlaj Nihalani will feel like after watching this, but you will be quite thrilled.

Here, watch the clip below.

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6 Times Anushka Sharma Nailed It While Speaking About Censorship
(01 of06)
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Yeah… because ultimately you are making a film which is an honest rendition of something that exists in our society, and there is no glorification of anything that can be objectionable.
On being asked whether the censor troubles that NH10 went through worried her, as one of the producers of the film. (credit:Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
(02 of06)
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There is rage. And that is the other thing. Our rage doesn’t unleash itself because we follow the system – judiciary, police etc. So our rage is directed at the systems that don’t work. We all talk about freedom of speech and having opinions. But what is happening is that there is moral policing and people saying that I am so convinced about my opinion that I will be pissed off if you don’t agree with me. That is why we are talking about bans, and taking out material from films.
On why she thinks 'moral policing' occurs in India (credit:Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
(03 of06)
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I just think there is just complete lack of compassion. When you make a film and you are told to reduce the violence. What is happening in real life is much more brutal. What we are making is much milder, and then you tell us to reduce by 30 percent? What does that mean? How do you do that?
On how she feels about the Censor Board's approach to cuts. (credit:AP)
(04 of06)
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Now I know when we are reading a script or making a movie, we are going to think “Is this going to get passed?” And that’s not how you want to make movies.
On how she feels rigid censorship will affect cinema (credit:STR/AFP/Getty Images)
(05 of06)
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We are breeding a 'ban mentality'. You are irritating people to the degree that it's suffocating them. We are educated people, we know what's right and what's not. Let us think for ourselves than follow a particular ideology.
When asked to describe the current climate of censorship in India (credit:Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
(06 of06)
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Believe in the certification. It's there for a reason. Films depict what's there in reality.
On how she would like audiences to approach movies (credit:BCCL)

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