New director Abhishek Saxena’s Phullu has been given an ‘A’ certificate, making the film’s cast and crew rather angry. Team Phullu feels that the film’s message around menstruation and sanitary napkins, needs to be seen by the young, as well as the old. But censor chief Pahlaj Nihalani feels otherwise.
While this is the sad truth of our society, Abhishek Saxena’s very intention behind making a film like Phullu was to rid the natural phenomenon of the shame attached to it.
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But Nihalani feels there are two realities of India.
How can we hope to sensitise young boys and men in rural India, if they’re never exposed to a new perspective? But Nihalani accuses the makers of Phullu of pandering vulgarity instead.
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