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After a handful of sexual assault cases registered against self-proclaimed godman Asaram Bapu, he was arrested in Jodhpur in August 2013. However, his ardent devotees, even today raise an objection over content that demean or degrade the reputation of the 'godman'. Recently, Welcome Back played it safe by chopping off a dialogue on Asaram Bapu.

The dialogue in question is, 'Andhera bahut hai Bhai, goggle utaar de warna izzat ka Asaram ho jayega'. Apparently, when the followers of Asaram became aware of it, they immediately contacted the production house and asked the makers to remove it. Director of the film, Anees Bazmee mentioned that even before the release of the film, they had decided to do away with the dialogue and added that the producers did receive a few calls from followers who were raising objection to it.

The dialogue writer of Welcome Back, Raj Shandilya, however, claimed that it was...

‘Partition Stories’ is a documentary co-produced by filmmakers Mara Ahmed and Surbhi Dewan. Both are descendants of families torn apart by the Partition – one ended up in India, the other in Pakistan

I was a grad student in upstate New York when I had a chance meeting with Mara Ahmed, a Pakistani-American documentary filmmaker. Very soon we realized that both she and I had the same story to tell. Even though we had been born many years after the Partition of India, and on opposite sides of the border, our personal connection to that historic event had clearly left a strong, lasting impression. And this was the story we were eager to share with the world.

We started work on ‘Partition Stories’ over five years ago, but in many ways the film has been a part of our lives since we were children, when we heard stories about this most...