The FCAT (Film Certification Appellate Tribunal) saw Pahlaj Nihanali’s film, Rangeela Raja, in Delhi on Friday. Also present for the screening was the CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification) team.

However, the verdict has apparently been put on hold till Monday. The Govinda-starrer got into a controversy when the filmmaker didn’t agree to the 20 cuts for the U/A rating and approached the Bombay High Court. Following the HC’s directive to exhaust his options first, Nihalani approached FCAT last Thursday (November 15). However, post the screening on Friday (November 23), the case was heard by the Tribunal. Says the filmmaker, “Usually, only the applicant and the Tribunal are there for the screening. This time, I think it’s after a long time that the CBFC team from Mumbai attended a FCAT hearing because they want to prove that they are right. It seemed as if the CBFC lawyer wasn’t aware of a number of things. He was saying that the song Yogi is vulgar, even though it has been certified ‘U’ and is playing on television and online.”

Nihalani summed up saying he was hopeful of getting justice on Monday. “Having been a chairperson of the CBFC, I’m very well aware of the guidelines and have made sure that I don’t have any objectionable content in my film. It’s a clean family entertainer. I believe there is some kind of vendetta against me that my film is being targetted while other movies are allowed to get away with much more,” he concluded.