Batla house director: Would've liked to retain parts that were edited

Updated On: 17 August, 2019 07:12 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonil Dedhia

Asserting that Court-ordered edits didn't affect the narrative, Batla House director Nikkhil Advani on the last-minute changes in film.

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John Abraham in Batla House

Sensitive as the subject was, Batla House director Nikkhil Advani continually maintained that he tried to have a balanced approach by presenting three different perspectives on the case — that of the cops, the judiciary and the accused. However, the John Abraham starrer — inspired by the 2008 police encounter — underwent a fresh round of edits after the Delhi High Court ordered that certain scenes be snipped before it hit screens on Independence Day. While the film has opened to a positive response, detractors are of the opinion that the story has a lopsided approach, with the version of the accused not finding a place in the runtime.

Quiz Advani, and he says, "This is a personal point of view, but I feel a couple of edits that were made, helped to tell a clear story from the point of view of the victim/accused. There was a petition filed that was considered by the court. So, we showed the film to the court to explain that while it is inspired from real events, a large part is fictional. If we had time on our hands, we would have wanted to explain why those scenes were important to the narrative."

Nikkhil Advani