Mersal row escalates: Prasoon Joshi hits out at makers, says wrongly accusing CBFC of stalling release

The big fight over blockbuster Mersal is only escalating with each passing day. The censor board's new chief Prasoon Joshi has hit out at the makers of the film and said that they have been deliberately wrongly accusing the certification board of stalling the release of the film, all in an effort to gain publicity.

Criticising the makers for blaming the board on the delay, Joshi said, "The process of approving a dubbed version of a film is the same as certifying a film for the first time. The filmmakers had not received any communication about the Telugu certification, so how can they accuse us of delaying the release of their film? This is not done."

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