Censor Board Member Objected 'PK', Swaroopanand Wants CBI Probe
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A
film
censor
board
member
on
Monday
said
he
had
objected
to
some
scenes
of
Aamir
Khan's
PK
ahead
of
its
release
but
was
ignored,
as
Shankaracharya
Swaroopanand
Saraswati
demanded
a
CBI
probe
over
how
the
movie
got
the
censor
board
certificate.
Some
censor
board
members
on
Monday
visited
the
ashram
of
Swaroopanand
in
Jyoteshwar.
Central
Board
of
Film
Certification
(CBFC)
member
Satish
Kalyankar
said
he
had
raised
objections
but
the
board's
CEO
paid
no
heed
to
his
concerns.
He
told
reporters
he
had
sought
a
meeting
to
register
his
objection
before
the
censor
board
CEO,
failing
which
he
conveyed
his
concerns
in
writing
to
him.
But
the
scenes
were
not
deleted.
Kalyankar,
also
a
member
of
the
film
screening
committee,
said
the
movie
violated
the
rules,
one
of
which
requires
that
a
film
should
not
contain
such
scenes
or
dialogues
that
hurt
religious
sentiments.
Films
can
be
publicly
exhibited
in
India
only
after
they
have
been
certified
by
the
CBFC.
Swaroopanand
told
the
media
some
censor
board
members
had
asked
the
movie
to
be
sent
for
a
review
again.
When
their
request
was
ignored,
they
had
also
written
to
the
information
and
broadcasting
ministry.
He
said
the
names
of
the
members
who
had
objections
to
the
scenes
were
left
out
of
the
film's
certificate,
and
there
should
be
a
probe
by
the
Central
Bureau
of
Investigation
(CBI)
into
it.
He
said
many
states
exempted
the
movie
from
paying
tax
because
of
'vote-bank'
politics.
On
the
film
being
financed
by
subversive
elements
from
Pakistan
as
well
as
a
Pakistani
channel,
he
said
he
won't
be
surprised
if
it
were
so.