The Bombay High Court on Friday told the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) that the board's power is to only certify movies for public exhibition and not censor them.

A division bench of Justices S.C. Dharmadhikari and Shalini Phansalkar Joshi said this while hearing the producers of the film, "Udta Punjab", on the 13 cuts suggested by the board.

The court said that if people do not like something they have a remote and that the CBFC should only certify a film and not censor it.

Among the many suggestions made by the review committee of the CBFC were the removal of the ‘sign board of Punjab’ in the beginning of the movie and the deletion of expletives.