Prakash Jha's Aarakshan, Aarakshan, Aarakshan ban, politicisation of cinema, Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan, reservation, Aarakshan releases
As Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab ban Prakash Jha's Aarakshan, lead star Amitabh Bachchan says the law will decide the outcome of this now-controversial film.
Aarakshan has run into a string of controversies. The UP government has not allowed the cast and crew to promote the film in the state. The head of the National Commission of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has called the film anti-Dalit - and this is a film that has already been cleared by the Censor Board. On We The People, we debate whether politics should be able to hold cinema to ransom?