After kicking up controversy, the much-awaited movie Dirty Politics, starring Mallika Sherawat in the lead role, has been issued an ‘A’ certificate. Now, the film’s latest poster showing Mallika, draped in two colours – white and saffron – has got clearance from IMPPA.

The film, based on Jodhpur’s ANM Bhanwari Devi sex scandal, will be releasing in December this year. After reviewing the film, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) sent it to the Revising Committee for further approval. Initially, the CBFC suggested a few cuts to give the film ‘U/A’ certificate to which the filmmakers didn’t agree. Finally, the Revising Committee passed it giving it an ‘A’ rating without any cuts. Confirms KC Bokadia, the director of the film, “Yes, the film has now got ‘A’ certificate without any cuts. Earlier CBFC had suggested deleting few scenes to give it a ‘U/A’ certificate. But we didn’t agree to it.

As the story revolves around a sex scandal, it was not possible to remove crucial scenes that have an important bearing on the film? Now, as everything is sorted, we are planning to release the film either on December 5 or 12.” Earlier, the film landed the makers, and lead actress Mallika Sherawat in a soup for the poster in which Sherawat is seen draped in a tricolour covering half of her body.

A slew of legal cases were filed in the courts of Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Delhi on behalf of various sections of the moral police. “The poster too has got a clearance after a few changes in it. Now, it’s only white and saffron and not the tricolour as was the case earlier,” says Bokadia.