Controversial scenes snipped from Satabdi Roy's film

KOLKATA: Why did Satabdi Roy, returning from the TMC dharna in Delhi, go straight to the CBFC office at Esplanade on Thursday?
To protest the A' certificate given to Paribartan, slated for an early release, or to accept it along with the cuts?
A section of the language press has been insinuating that the feature film which speaks of a need to change the existing government, has not been cleared by CBFC.Taking a cue from them, others too made a beeline for the regional office to see the actor-turned-director lay a siege of the censors.
It turned out to be a storm in the teacup. Satabdi Roy, who also features in a central role, accepted the cuts that pertained to a lookalike of the CM hatching a conspiracy inside his office to murder the opposition leader in the film. Paribartan, described as a romantic story set against politics in West Bengal, reportedly opens with a girl getting abducted a day before her marriage.
The cuts were imposed by an advisory panel that constituted of Trinamool Congress members MLA Arup Biswas, Dola Sen, MIC chairperson Sacchidananda Bandopadhyay, and Nilima Nag Mullick. The panel had been suggested by CM Jatua, MoS, I&B, and the cuts have been okayed by the Trinamool supremo herself, it is reliably learnt.
Earlier too, when Bratya Basu's Taara had come up before the censors, the names of panel members had been suggested by the minister of state, one learns. The political satire was released unscathed but did not click with viewers.