Mewar royal slams CBFC for certifying movie sans his nod

New Delhi: A Mewar royal on Saturday penned a letter to Prasoon Joshi, chairman of the CBFC, slamming him for certifying Sanjay Leela Bhansalis arguable film 'Padmavati' with out his consent. Maharajkumar Vishvaraj Singh, son of Mahendra Singh Mewar -- the 76th Maharana of the Mewar dynasty and a former Lok Sabha member -- has written the letter, a replica of which is with IANS.

Vishvaraj Singh said he was invited via Joshi to be part of an examining committee assembly to lend a hand the CBFC in the strategy of certification on December 28 to which he requested some clarifications. The decision was taken in the assembly in the presence of Joshi. The special panel consisted of Arvind Singh from Udaipur, Dr Chandramani Singh and Professor K.K. Singh of Jaipur University.

CBFC invited us to be part of the panel and we asked positive questions, then we come to grasp that any other panel... https://t.co/M3a1IhkY2D

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However, because of verbal exchange issues, Vishvaraj Singh was not able to attend the assembly and got to grasp that CBFC has urged to provide a U/A certificates "along with some modifications" to 'Padmavati' and has asked the makers to "likely" alternate the film's name to 'Padmavat'.