I Will Go To The Supreme Court If Needed: Anurag Kashyap
Bollywood
oi-IANS
By Ians English
Filmmaker
Anurag
Kashyap
says
he
will
fight
till
the
end
against
the
Censor
Board's
objection
to
his
refusal
to
add
anti-smoking
disclaimers
in
his
upcoming
directorial
venture
Ugly.
And
if
the
need
arises,
he
will
even
approach
the
Supreme
Court.
Kashyap
has
filed
a
petition
in
the
Bombay
High
Court
against
the
Central
Board
of
Film
Certification
in
the
regard,
and
he
is
not
willing
to
release
his
film
with
such
disclaimers.
"What
I
feel
is
(that
it
is)
very
unfair.
It
is
absolutely
mindless
and
pointless.
If
the
Bombay
High
Court
does
not
agree
to
it,
I
will
go
to
Supreme
Court," Kashyap
said
here
in
an
interview.
Produced
by
DAR
Motion
Pictures
and
Phantom
Films,
Ugly
was
earlier
slated
to
release
Oct
11
this
year
but
then
the
release
was
moved
forward
to
next
year
as
the
filmmaker
was
not
willing
to
carry
the
anti-smoking
disclaimer
in
the
smoking
scenes
in
the
film.
"I
don't
want
to
release
Ugly
with
those
anti-smoking
notifications.
"I
have
to
fight
till
the
end.
I
have
my
right
to
expression.
I
make
my
films
and
in
this
country,
being
a
democracy
I
think
I
am
going
to
pitch
my
fight
till
the
end
to
see
that
what
comes
out
of
it
because
somewhere
somebody
has
to
stand
up
and
fight
against
it,"
he
added.
Known
for
films
like
Gangs
Of
Wasseypur,
Dev
D,
Gulaal
and
No
Smoking,
Kashyap
also
said
that
such
disclaimers
are
an
insult
to
anybody
who
takes
his
work
seriously.
"Warning
(disclaimer)
is
not
just
distracting,
it
is
a
downright
insult
to
anybody
who
takes
his
work
seriously.
"I
take
my
films
very
seriously
and
I
feel
it
is
very
insulting
that
there
is
a
key
moment
going
on
in
my
film
and
suddenly
that
logo
(disclaimer)
appears,"
said
the
filmmaker.
Ugly
features
Ronit
Roy,
Girish
Kulkarni,
Tejaswini
Kolhapure,
Surveen
Chawla,
Siddharth
Kapoor
and
Rahul
Bhatt
in
key
roles.