'Nalini' director to delete one scene from film on Tagore

Ujjwal Chatterjee, who is set to direct bi-lingual film "Nalini" based on the platonic relationship between teenage Rabindranath Tagore and Marathi girl Annapurna Turkhud, today said he was ready to delete one scene from the final script.

Visva Bharati University had over a week ago set up a committee to examine the script of "Nalini", a Marathi-Bengali biopic which is being produced by Priyanka Chopra's Purple Pebble Pictures.

"We have decided to delete one scene in which Annapurna, affectionately named as Nalini by Tagore, kisses him on the cheek. We are aware about the sentiments involving Tagore and the sanctity of his dream place Visva Bharati where we intend to shoot some sequences," Chatterjee, who earlier directed "Escape from Taliban", told

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