Just on last week, Pahlaj Nihalani, the CBFC chief was replaced by Prasoon Joshi as the new chief. On Monday, it was officially the first day of Prasoon Joshi and on the same day he had to take the command in his hand. But he didn't not attend the office as was under the influence of weather.

Says the source, "On Friday, before Pahlaj Nihalani left his office he had certified many films including Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s Bareilly Ki Barfi and the Sidharth Malhotra -Jacqueline Fernandez thriller, A Gentleman, scheduled to be released on the two Fridays to come one after the other. These producers were to collect their censor certificates on Monday as per the rules. When Prasoon didn’t turn up at the CBFC office on Monday, all hell broke loose since there was no chairperson to organise the smooth delivery of the certificates.”

The producers of Bareilly Ki Barfi then contacted the former chief Pahlaj as they wanted their certification, "Pahlaj had no choice but to step in to help them out. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have got the certificate. Bareilly Ki Barfi would have definitely missed its release this Friday.”

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