Actor and MP Kangana Ranaut has expressed her distress on the film industry and the opposition for not supporting her film Emergency, whose release has been stalled owing to censorship troubles. In an interview with News18, Kangana said that although opposition parties and the industry rallied behind films like Padmaavat and Udta Punjab in the past, when it comes to Emergency nobody extended their support.

“It's happened in the past too. There have been films like Padmaavat and Udta Punjab which were released quite smoothly. There were threats to chop off someone's nose, someone's neck, but the government protected them and they were released. But when it came to my film's release, no one… especially no one from the Congress party supported me, not even the film industry did. I definitely feel like I'm on my own. When I see these kind of feelings, this narrow-minded thinking, what kind of hope from people would I be left with?” Kangana said.

“The film industry is celebrating that my self-financed film didn't release. I am in the loneliest corner of the world,” she added.

Emergency, directed by Kangana, is based on the life of the late prime minister Indira Gandhi. The film was scheduled to release on September 6 but didn’t get a CBFC certificate after a Sikh group claimed that they weren’t being depicted in a fair light in the film.

Back in 2016, Abhishek Chaubey's Udta Punjab, starring Alia Bhatt, Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, and Diljit Dosanjh, ran into trouble after fringe groups stated that it showed Punjab in a bad light. The film was based on the drug menace in the state. 

In 2018, Sanjay Leela Bhansali had to postpone his historical epic Padmaavat, starring Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, and Shahid Kapoor, after Shri Rajput Karni Sena claimed that the film distorted historical facts.