Sonam’s ‘indecent gesture’ in ‘Players’ taken too lightly?

This isn’t for the first time though that an act like this has been passed off without any cuts. The promos of soon-to-be-released ‘Rockstar’ too features a similar gesture with Ranbir Kapoor showing his middle finger to a huge crowd.

“While the one in ‘Players’ is still meant to be funny and naughty,’Rockstar’ act has Ranbir seemingly in an offensive mode and carries a rather angry expression. While the makers as well as the actors seem to be totally convinced about what they are doing on screen,guess the authorities too are fine with these sequences being aired on prime time,” says a filmmaker on condition of anonymity,“However what is surprising is that when it comes to smaller films where makers don’t really come with much power and authority to fight back,guidelines are followed much more stringently.”

This was pretty much the case with a song featured on Rakhi Sawant for Loot where some of the objectionable words in the lyrics have now been muted. Same holds good for an even smaller film Shakal Pe Mat Ja (produced by Hrishita Bhatt) where majority of its promos were quashed by the Censor Board.

“John Abraham and Deepika Padukone can get away with murder by terming their obscene gestures as cute in ‘Jhak Maar Ke ‘ [Desi Boyz. However others are not too lucky,” rues another filmmaker.

One wonders whether ‘Players’,’Rockstar’ and ‘Desi Boyz’ would now end up getting a second look by the Censor Board.