The censor board has banned it’s own board member Dr. Chandraprakash Diwedi’s highly controversial film Mohalla Assi, which pokes fun at the commercialisation of the holy city of Varanasi.

Interestingly the film’s trailer, laced with the most colourful Hindi expletives and cuss words, mouthed by actors with a sober image such as Sunny Deol and Sakshi Tanwar had been ‘leaked’ on the internet long before the film was submitted for certification. Subsequently, the entire film, which features some of the most risque lines heard in films in recent times, was also ‘leaked’ on the Internet before its submission.

Finally, Mohalla Assi has been shown to the censor board, which has decided to ban it completely. Apparently, the film evoked extreme reactions from some of the members within the censorboard.