"Allergy To Facts": Swara Bhasker Reacts To Alleged Cuts Done By Censor Board To 'Bheed'
Anubhav Sinha's 'Bheed' released in the theatres on Friday but has been courting controversy ever since the first teaser dropped.
Anubhav Sinha's latest project 'Bheed' has been in the news ever since the first teaser came out. Initially, the Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar-starrer was criticised for drawing paralles between the Covid-19 induced lockdown and 1947 partition. Now, as the movie has released in the theatres, new information has surfaced, in which it has been alleged that there have been several cuts done by the Censor Board to the final print of 'Bheed'.
As per the now viral tweet, there have been several changes to the final print of 'Bheed'. It has been alleged that the comparison to partition has also been removed.
See the viral tweet here:
The censor board has removed the following content from #Bheed (dir. @anubhavsinha):
— Aroon Deep (@AroonDeep) March 23, 2023
- Any reference to PM/Delhi CM, incl. Modi's voiceover
- Depiction of villainization of Muslims in the initial days of the pandemic
- Comparison to Partition
- Police brutality#CBFCWatch pic.twitter.com/ziT937suSb
Actress Swara Bhasker has given her take on the same. Taking to Twitter, she wrote: "Nothing stings like facts.. In India we have a new affliction : Allergy to facts. #bheed #censorship."
Nothing stings like facts.. In India we have a new affliction : Allergy to facts. #bheed#censorship https://t.co/LSN5K5A0BW
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) March 24, 2023
The cast of 'Bheed' includes Rajkummar Rao, Bhumi Pednekar, Pankaj Kapur, Ashutosh Rana, Dia Mirza, Virendra Saxena, Aditya Shrivastava, Kritika Kamra and Karan Pandit.
Talking about 'Bheed', director Anubhav Sinha had told Variety: "‘Bheed’ is a story of the most perilous times which changed everything for humanity. The key objective of shooting the film in black and white was to showcase how the visuals of the social disparity during India’s lockdown were strikingly similar to what people went through during the 1947 India partition."
In the ‘Bheed’ trailer, Rajkummar Rao's character says: "Justice is always in the hands of the powerful. If the powerless served justice, justice would be different."
The 'Bheed' trailer opened with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation, in which he had announced that a full lockdown would be enforced.
