The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a stay on the release of Paresh Rawal-starrer Bollywood movie ‘The Taj Story’, scheduled to hit the screens on Friday.
During a brief hearing, the court of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela pointed out that the Cinematograph Act did not have any provision for review, and the prayer cannot be granted.
The counsel argued he was not against the exhibition of the film, but was seeking a disclaimer to be put in place that the content was not definitive history.
“Are we a super censor board?... You want a disclaimer saying this is not history. Tell me, in any work of fiction, whether the author puts a disclaimer that this is not history?
“Even for history, two historians may have different

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