Hearing a PIL objecting to the use of the ‘Shoorveer’ song, composed as a tribute to Maharana Pratap, over gangster scenes in Mirzapur: The Movie, the Delhi High Court asked the CBFC to decide within a week on the producer’s own proposal to replace the song with background music. The Court declined to rule on the merits, observing the issue was for the competent authority, but remarked prima facie that the usage was not in good taste.
The Madras High Court refused to ban the Tamil film Karuppu, observing that portraying judicial corruption and criticising the judiciary cannot automatically amount to contempt, while emphasising that judges are not beyond scrutiny and freedom of artistic expression must be protected in a democratic society.
