Filmmaker Abhishek Chaubey believes performance outweighs polish, consistently favouring acting truth over star image, as seen in his gritty, character-driven work across Ishqiya and Udta Punjab and grounded cinematic realism.
Cinévesture International Film Festival 2025, Chandigarh: Filmmaker Abhishek Chaubey on why he turned producer, challenges of making biopics, on fighting legal cases for each of his films, and navigating streamers.
CNBC TV18‘s Archana Shukla travelled to districts in Punjab to assess the impact of the drug crisis and its lesser discussed impact on healthcare. Here's the first story: What's Ailing Rural India from the state of Punjab.
Speaking to CNBC-TV Sameer Nair of Balaji Telefilms said that Udta Punjab's weekend collections globally have been Rs 53.8 crore.
Investigators have obtained "some leads" in the online leakage case of Bollywood movie "Udta Punjab", a senior police officer said on June 16, a day after the film producer lodged a complaint with the cyber crime cell
In their compliant lodged with the cyber crime police in Bandra, they stated the film was uploaded before its release by some unidentified persons.
On Wednesday afternoon, it emerged that the Abhishek Chaubey directorial -- which has been in news for the makers' run-in with the censor board -- was available on torrent sites for illegal download.
The film ran into controversy last week after CBFC refused to certify the film until it adhered to the 89 cuts that the board had demanded.
The deletion of words election, MP, MLA, party worker, Parliament as well as cuss words including a disclaimer that the filmmaker acknowledges the government's battle against drugs.
As the row over 'Udta Punjab' raged, the Bombay High Court on June 9 sought an explanation from the Censor Board over its insistence for deleting Punjab signboard in the drug-themed film which triggered fresh sparring
"Raghuram Rajan is doing a good job. The way in which he had controlled inflation keeping in mind the world economy is appreciable," Rathore told reporters here.
Phantom Films, which produced the film, had earlier in the day moved the court seeking a copy of the order passed by the Revising Committee suggesting cuts in the movie and removal of reference to Punjab in it.