Summary:
Even more curiously, the same lead actor Shahid Kapoor was seen snorting cocaine, screaming expletives and even urinating on the audience at a rock concert in Udta Punjab. In a move that would most certainly make the former CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani smile, the new supposedly-liberal censor board, under the stewardship of Prasoon Joshi, has clamped down heavily on a majority of the expletives, cuss words and profanities said by Shahid Kapoor in Kabir Singh. This dazzling demonstration of prudishness is in spite of the fact that Kabir Singh has been stamped with an ‘A’ certificate. Curiously, the same level of unparliamentary language was permissible in the blockbuster Arjun Reddy, the Telugu film which inspired Kabir Singh. The makers of Kabir Singh didn’t even put up a fight..