It's an outdated concept, tells Akshaye Khanna on Censorship!

Actor Akshaye Khanna has been busy promoting his forthcoming movie, MOM. In an interview with a famous tabloid, Akhsaye was questioned about the whole concept of censorship as recently there was a hullabaloo around the censorship of the word intercourse in Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma's Jab Harry Met Sejal.

Responding to the query, Khanna told, “Censorship is an outdated concept. I agree 1,000 percent. It is completely unacceptable to a majority of the society today. Especially, the younger generation who are watching everything online — whether it’s the internet, social media — they can access the information from anywhere and nobody can stop them from doing it. So, they aren’t used to this kind of censorship."

He went on to add further, “You can’t necessarily say that certain content can’t be part of an audio-visual or a film or TV. It could be any content and if everyone else in the world can watch it, so can we.”

Explaining a bit more, Akshaye told, “If it’s a part of a film that requires that kind of a scene to be shot and you are working with a director who you can trust, I don’t think I will have a problem with it. But it has to be absolutely essential to the story."

"All of it has to be there for you to make that decision. As an actor, you cannot say, ‘I won’t do this’. You have to be open to ideas of things that you are naturally not comfortable with, but if the role requires you to do something that you may not be physically, mentally or even socially comfortable with, sometimes you can take a risk and just do it,” he told and ended conversation.