Just a few days before its release Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is embroiled in a caste controversy. A character in the film was heard saying, “I am a Brahmin. But I eat eggs.”

While initially the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) let the line go thinking it is more an individual comment than a comment on any caste or community, it was soon brought to light that the seemingly casual line secretes a caste bias.

The line referring to a Brahmin who eats eggs would have to be removed.

“The caste system has been abolished in India. If today JP Dutta wants to make Kshatriya or the late Vijay Anand were to make Rajput the titles would not be allowed,” says a CBFC source, adding that way back in 2008 a reference to a ‘lohar’ (ironsmith) had to be removed from a song and dance featuring Madhuri Dixit in Aaja Nachle.

The censor board had asked the makers of Bombay Velvet to remove the word ‘dhobi’ from a song in the film.