Videsh movie poster and Deepa Mehta (inset)
Preity Zinta’s next film Videsh, which is directed by Deepa Mehta is in trouble with Censor Board to get a U/A certificate. The Board thinks that the film is too violent and asked the director to cut down its violent scenes by 50 per cent.
The film which is based on domestic violence shows too much violence towards Preity’s character. So the Censor Board has insisted to cut down some scenes and they will give green signal to the film only after seeing the edited part.
The regional Officer of Censor Board, Vinayak Azad said, “We have asked them to tone down the domestic violence scenes by 50 per cent. And we had one more objection. The film has used expletives too, which will have to be either beeped or deleted.”
He later added, “We will review the film once again after they make the cuts which we have asked for.”
The film shows Preity as being beaten up by husband (played by Vansh Bhardwaj) at several scenes. There was also news in the last few days that actress Preity Zinta felt disturbed after doing the scene where she was beaten by and humiliated by Vansh.
Lately, when Preity was asked about her experience working in Videsh, she had replied, “I remember asking a woman, who was a victim of domestic violence and had left her husband, what the turning point in her relationship was and she said, ‘I told my husband if you want to beat me, beat me in the bedroom, don’t beat me in front of the family.’ I could never understand that. It’s terrible. I really didn’t know what it was to be in a situation like this till I actually did the film.”
Eventually Preity Zinta has won the best actress Silver Hugo Award in Feature Film Competition at 44th Chicago International Film Festival for the same film.
