'Manmarziyaan': Miffed Anurag slams production house for deleting 'objectionable' scenes

Reportedly, a Sikh organization had alleged that three scenes from the movie hurt the religious sentiments.

It included scenes of Abhishek Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu smoking, along with the actress thinking about her past while entering the gurudwara.

How one smoking scene or a character's thoughts inside a gurudwara hurt sentiments is something for science fiction writers to figure out.

Soon after the matter was raised, Eros chairman Kishore Lulla approached the Censor Board to make the necessary deletion.

"We have removed the three scenes from the film as people's sentiments were getting hurt. The said changes have come into effect in metros from today and will reflect across India from the coming Thursday-Friday," a source from the production told PTI.

Apart from Anurag, the movie's Rumi, Taapsee Pannu too expressed her disappointment over the deletion of scenes.

Taapsee, who herself belongs to the Sikh religion, also wrote a sarcastic tweet and said that deleting of the scenes might ensure that no Sikh will ever smoke or will assure that the religion is most pious and peaceful of all.

Anurag's friend Vikramaditya Motwane came out in his support and said this was a bad example to set.

While Motwane lauded the CBFC for showing maturity at the time of release, it slammed Eros for not supporting the team.

It's hard to not agree with Motwane. If only Eros showed some spine! But then business isn't something one wants to mess with.