Kangana Ranaut, the award winning bollywood actress waded into the Udta Punjab censoring controversy with her own greviances. She voiced her support for the Udta Punjab team and speaking after receiving an award at the Indian of the Year awards ceremony convened by CNN News 18, she revealed that the CBFC had used its scissors on an item of lingerie in her award winning film Queen!
Kangana said that the way the board functions has troubled filmmakers and actors for a long time now. Kangana felt that the process should be about certification, and not censorship. “This parental attitude towards the audience by the Censor Board is not acceptable….This (the Udta Punjab row) reminds me of a particular incident in my movie Queen. There is a scene where my bra is on the bed…One day my director called me and said that censor board asked to blur it. We had put a lot of work on that bra. It was flown abroad all the way from Lajpat Nagar. So, we were shocked. Why do we see it as a danger to society? A woman’s bra is not a danger to society.”