‘Religious sentiments can’t be hurt’: Govt sources on deferment of Kangana’s ‘Emergency’

New Delhi, September 2

Government sources on Monday said actor and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut’s film “Emergency” had sensitive content and religious sentiments could not be allowed to be hurt.

Speaking on the deferment of the release date of the film, initially scheduled for September 6 launch, official sources said, “Some religious organisations have raised concerns. Religious sentiments cannot be hurt. There is some sensitive content in the film,” a top source said.

The release of “Emergency” has been deferred multiple times as the film is yet to get a certificate of clearance from the Central Board of Film Certification.

Sikh organisations have been agitating against the film, demanding a ban on it.

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee earlier sent a legal notice to the makers of the film alleging misrepresentation of history and sought removal of content that are hurtful to Sikh sentiments.

Kangana is the director, writer and co-producer of the film.

Today she took to X to term the developments related to her film “hugely demotivating and unjust”.

”Law of the land is that one can show unimaginable amount of violence and nudity on OTT platforms without any consequence or censorship, one can even distort real life events to suit their politically motivated sinister motives, there is all the freedom for communists or leftists across the world for such anti national expressions but as a nationalist no OTT platform allows us to make films that revolves around the integrity and unity of Bharat, it seems censorship is only for some of us who don’t want tukde of this nation and make films on historic facts. It’s hugely demotivating and unjust,” she wrote.

Kangana was referring to Anubhav Sinha’s IC-814, which uses non-Muslim names the hijackers of the ill-fated plane had assumed to hide their Muslim identities.

The government has now summoned Netflix director on the issue of IC-814 film also.