Recently on Monday, SC has rejected the plea seeking deletion of 'Sati' scenes for the 'Padmavat' movie. Since form, the starting the movie is facing some of the other legal problems, in between all of them still the movie has turned out to be the box office hit. The plea was filed by Swami Agnivesh because he felt that this would negatively affect the viewers of the film.
According to bollywoodbubble, rejecting the plea, the panel of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said that once a film is given certification by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), then there is nothing that can constitute an offense.
The court also said the plea registered was against law banning Sati. The applicant had claimed that the scenes of 'jauhar' were promoting the practice of 'Sati'. With reference to the novel ‘Devdas’ by Sarad Chandra Chattopadhyay, Chief Justice Misra said that one should read the book and see its celluloid version in which veteran actor Dilip Kumar has performed the role of main character Devdas who turns alcoholic for the loss of love.
Leading to his statement on Devdas he said that has any lover become alcoholic just like the film character. He told the lawyer that he was “trying to make a mountain out of trivial things”.
Contradictory to the statement given by Justice Mishra, the lawyer mentioned that some of his friends have become alcoholic on which Justice Khanwilkar said: “Sir, you keep bad company.”
