With the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) coming down hard on Diljit Dosanjh-starrer Punjab ’95, there was bound to be pushback. Earlier this week, mid-day reported that the CBFC had doled out nearly 120 changes to the Honey Trehan-directed biopic on human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra (Cut, cut till you edit history? Sept. 25) Now, Gurcharan Singh Grewal, General Secretary of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), has expressed his support for the film.

Grewal has objected to the CBFC’s recommendations, which range from rechristening the film, to Khalra’s character being renamed. When mid-day reached out to Grewal, he was surprised that a film on Khalra—who had played a critical role in investigating the disappearance and killing of Sikh youths during the Punjab insurgency between 1984 and 1994—would have such a hard time with the censor board.