New Delhi:

The director also criticised the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for modifications suggested to Phule.

The biopic, featuring Pratik Gandhi and Patralekhaa in the roles of the reformist couple, was set for release last week but it will now arrive in theatres on April 25.

After the trailer of Phule was unveiled online on April 10, some members from the Brahmin community raised objections stating that they’ve been portrayed in poor light.

In a series of post on Instagram, Kashyap said the very first play of his career was based on the lives of Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule. “If casteism didn’t exist in this country, why did they need to fight against it?” The makers of Phule on April 7 received a ‘U’ certificate from the censor board, which had asked them to make changes like removing terms such as ‘Mang’, ‘Mahar’ and ‘Peshwai’.

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Thursday criticised the protests around the film Phule, a biopic on social reformers Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule, questioning why films depicting caste issues get banned in India.

He added Diljit Dosanjh-starrer Panjab ’95 and Dibakar Banerjee’s Tees to the list of movies that are finding it difficult to release in India.

The modifications also included the visual of ‘man carrying a broom’, which has been replaced with ‘boys throwing cow dung balls at Savitribai’, and the line ‘3000 saal purani gulami’ being changed to ‘Kai saal purani’.

Kashyap noted that not just Phule but Sandhya Suri’s “Santosh” and “Dhadak 2” are reportedly also facing censor trouble.

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