India, July 7 -- Honey Trehan's Diljit Dosanjh-starrer political drama Satluj arrived on Zee5 on Friday without warning. The film, earlier titled Panjab 95, had been embroiled in a battle with the censors for four years. But then, just as quietly as it had released, the film was taken down two days later with no reason given. The film's writer, Niren Bhatt, has addressed the film's fate and bemoaned the lack of transparency around it all in a new interview with Variety India.

Niren Bhatt has co-written the film with Utsav Maitra and director Honey Trehan. Talking about the film's unceremonious removal from Zee5, he told Variety India, "I feel someone in the establishment has a massive problem with it, but the real issue is the complete l...