Udta Punjab: Angry Anurag Kashyap compares censorship to North Korea

Anurag Kashyap, one of the producers of Udta Punjab, has compared the ongoing censorship regarding his upcoming film Udta Punjab to the dictator regime of North Korea.

The Bombay Velvet director said there is no sense of freedom here.

He posted on Twitter,

I always wondered what it felt like to live in North Korea .. Ab to plane pakadney ki bhi zaroorat nahin..

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) June 6, 2016

Joseph Ka Mukadama was a Hindi play adaptation of which famous Czech novel?? We are back there

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) June 6, 2016

The 43-year-old filmmaker's tweet came after Censor Board had purportedly raised certain objections regarding references to Punjab following which the movie may have to go through some changes.

Udta Punjab, starring Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Alia Bhatt and Diljit Dosanjh in a pivotal role, deals with the substance abuse in Northen part of the state and its effects on the youth.

Kashyap added,

There is no film more honest than UDTA PUNJAB .. And any person or party opposing it is actually GUILTY of promoting drugs

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) June 6, 2016

Directed by Abhishek Chaubey, the film is slated to release on June 17.