Kangana Ranaut’s Emergency fails to get relief from High Court

Kangana Ranaut’s film Emergency will miss the September 6 scheduled release date, with the Bombay HC on Wednesday refusing to grant any urgent relief by directing the censor board to certify the movie immediately.

A Division Bench of Justices BP Colabawalla and Firdosh Pooniwalla said it could not grant any urgent relief at this stage in the wake of the directive issued by the Madhya Pradesh HC directing the censor board to consider objections to the movie before certifying it.

The Bench said if not for the Madhya Pradesh HC, it would have directed the central board to issue a certificate to the movie “today” itself. Scheduled for release on September 6, the biographical drama is caught up in a controversy after Sikh organisations objected, accusing it of misrepresenting the community and getting historical facts wrong.