The Delhi High Court on Tuesday gave its go ahead to the telecast of Bollywood movie, Grand Masti , on television after as many as 218 cuts. On August 21, the court had stayed its telecast on television. A Division Bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath vacated the stay, stating that the film would be exhibited ‘in strict compliance with requirement of the endorsement of a caution in terms of provisions of the Cinematograph Act, 1952’. The Bench vacated the stay on the plea of a media group seeking permission to telecast the movie on one of its channels.
The court had stayed the telecast of the film on a public interest litigation by Edara Gopi Chand. The petitioner alleged that the movie was replete with double meaning dialogues along with highly objectionable content. During arguments on the media group’s application for vacation of the stay, the Union government and the Central Board of Film Certification submitted that the movie was re-certified as U/A in January after 218 cuts, reducing the 135-minute theatrical version of the film to 98 minutes.