Aanand L Rai defends decision to delete scenes from 'Manmarziyaan'

Director-producer Aanand L Rai on Thursday defended the decision to cut three smoking-related scenes from the film "Manmarziyaan", saying their non-inclusion does not "compromise" with its genre.

His response came after director Anurag Kashyap took to Twitter and expressed a strong displeasure over the move, indicating that he was not consulted about the decision.

Earlier, Eros implied that the decision to cut the scenes were taken by the creative producer of the film, Colour Yellow Productions which is run by Rai.

In a statement, Rai said, "These cuts were made on a call taken by Colour Yellow Team. I feel we need to understand that this controversy happened after the film has released which leaves the producers and studio extremely vulnerable."