According to a Mumbai Mirror report, Censor Board has told the director of Margarita, With A Straw that they have moral guidelines to follow. Despite assurances from the Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore that the Central Board of Film
Certification is a 'certifying body' not a 'censoring one', the Board continues to wield its scissors on films, the report stated. And its latest casualty is Shonali Bose's award winning film Margarita, With A Straw, a coming-of-age story of a young girl suffering from cerebral palsy, played by Kalki Koechlin, who comes to terms with her queer sexuality. The report further stated that after watching the film, the Examining Committee (EC) asked the makers to tone down a kissing scene between Kalki and Sayani Gupta. "There is a 12-second long kiss between the two characters, but the CBFC had problems with it. They want me to reduce it to just a few seconds. I explained that as it is their first kiss, it can't be that brief," the report quoted Shonali.
The members also asked Bose to edit out a scene when Kalki shows the middle finger. Another sequence shows a male character removing her undergarments so that she could use the washroom and she then proceeds to urinate. This too riled the Censors, the report further stated. "The film will go to the Revising Committee now. I hope better sense prevails as the EC, to my shock, told me they had moral guidelines to follow," an exasperated Shonali told Mirror.
The members also asked Bose to edit out a scene when Kalki shows the middle finger. Another sequence shows a male character removing her undergarments so that she could use the washroom and she then proceeds to urinate. This too riled the Censors, the report further stated. "The film will go to the Revising Committee now. I hope better sense prevails as the EC, to my shock, told me they had moral guidelines to follow," an exasperated Shonali told Mirror.
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