Julie 2 gets 'A' certificate with no cuts; distributor Pahlaj Nihalani maintains it is a 'clean' film

As the trailer of Deepak Shivdasani's erotic thriller Julie 2 unraveled a few days ago, the viewers found it extremely difficult to get over the very first still, which read: "Pahlaj Nihalani presents". Nihalani's involvement in the film could not help but project Julie 2 as India's first sanskari erotic thriller.[caption id="attachment_4006671" align="alignleft" width="380"] Raai Lakshmi in a still from Julie 2. YouTube[/caption]Now, Hindustan Times reports that the Central Board of Film Certificataion (CBFC), under the chairmanship of lyricist-adman Prasoon Joshi, has cleared Julie 2 with an 'A' certificate and no cuts, just as the film's distributor and former CBFC chairman Nihalani predicted it would be.The Quint quotes Nihalani as saying, "This is  just what I  had hoped for. If I was still the CBFC chairperson, I’d have  given  Julie 2 an ‘Adult’ certificate with no cuts. It is a clean 'Adult' film for adult members of a family. Though it’s a film on an adult subject — the exploitation of  strugglers  and newcomers in Bollywood — the film has no nudity , no skin show, no double-meaning dialogues. Like I said, it is a family film for adults and  the CBFC has done the right thing."While the given certification to Julie 2 is likely to be fair, Nihalani's statement reeks of hypocrisy since he is infamous as the man who denied certification to a number of films over the past couple of years, just because those did not score high on his sanskari meter.Julie 2 stars Raai Lakshmi, Ravi Kishan, Rati Agnihotri and Pankaj Tripathi. It is the sequel to Shivdasani's 2004 film Julie. It is co-produced by Shivdasani and Vijay Nair's Triumph Talkies. It is slated to release on 6 October, along with Raja Krishna Menon's slice-of-life food film Chef and Ananth Narayan Mahadevan's thriller Aksar 2.