The film was banned after Sikkim's merger in India in 1975, as it showed the Chogyal-ruled Sikkim as a sovereign state. The movie was later remade with a different cast. The master prints and all copies was lifted from the Censor Board office and burned by Sanjay Gandhi supporters.
Ī political spoof, the film was banned by the Congress government for lampooning the Emergency. It was banned during Emergency by Indira Gandhi and subsequently released in 1977 after Janata Party came into power. The film depicted a Muslim family during the partition of India. The release was held up by the censors for 8 months. It was banned for depicting the psychological motivations of Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.
It was banned for two months for overt controversies of sexual harassment overtones it showed the troubles faced by an immigrant Chinese wage laborer in 1930s Calcutta.
