Cancer-Survivor Anurag Basu Lied To Get Out Of Cancer Awareness Event

Originally posted by: shyams

Cancer-Survivor Anurag Basu Lied To Get Out Of A Cancer Awareness Event?

Spotboye15 December 2016

This morning you woke up to the news that Anurag Basu had to skip a cancer awareness event because he apparently told the organisers that he was held up at a meeting with the Censor Board.

Trust SpotboyE.com to have the real story and we can tell you that Basu was NOT present at the Censor Board's Walkeshwar Office- if he had indeed claimed as per the report.

The Censor Board had a meeting with the makers of Ranbir Kapoor-Katrina Kaif starrer Jagga Jasoos, over the certification of its trailer but the film was represented by Chartered Accountant Bimal Parekh and Anurag's wife Tani Basu. Sheetal Talwar (producer of Mausam) was also present at the meeting.

When contacted, Censor Board Chairman Pahlaj Nihalani said: "I never saw Anurag when the trailer of Jagga Jasoos was being worked upon. I never met him. So this accusation that we held him up is completely untrue. Why is the Censor Board made the scapegoat for everything?"
Anurag is a supporter of cancer awareness events because he survived the disease himself. In 2004, the filmmaker was diagnosed with promyelocytic leukemia- a type of blood cancer.

The doctors gave him 2 months to live when he was diagnosed during the filming of Tumsa Nahin Dekha. But he beat the disease.

The question however remains: Where exactly was Anurag at the time of the event in question? We are not holding our breath for this one though.

Originally posted by: ---Betty---

"Anurag Basu is a liar" - Pahlaj Nihlani

By Subhash K. Jha

Dec 16, 2016 - 9:38 hrs IST

When Anurag Basu told the press that he couldn't be present at a cancer awareness event in Parel (Mumbai) on Wednesday because he was "stuck" at the censor board office, little did he know that his convenient lie uttered to slip out of a social engagement would land him in an embarrassing mess.

It now comes to light that Mr Basu was nowhere near the censor board office on Wednesday. Angry annoyed and bewildered the censor board chief Pahlaj Nihlani says,

"Why do filmmakers think they can continue to make a scapegoat out of the CBFC whenever they are in a sticky situation?

So far our name was used to cover up for delays in release. Now we have a reputed filmmaker using the CBFC's name as an excuse for his absence at an event, and that too something as serious and sensitive as cancer."

Pahlaj Nihalani makes mincemeat of Basu's claims. "I am sorry to say he's lying. Anurag Basu has not come to us at all on Wednesday or any time recently.

It is true that his trailer of Jagga Jasoos was being discussed at the CBFC. But that was on Tuesday, a day before the event which he did not attend. And even on Tuesday Basu was not present, his representatives were. Next time I suggest he use some other excuse for his non-appearance. The CBFC won't be a scapegoat for the film fraternity's failings."

Significantly Anurag Basu is a cancer survivor. It is surprising to note his seeming lack of empathy for a cause that ought to be very close to his heart.

Originally posted by: ---Betty---

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