'Udta Punjab' is not anti-Punjab: Benegal

As compared to his times, has it become tougher for filmmakers to bring socio-political issues to the big screen? ---"See, when you are critical of an establishment at any given time, there would always be a response. You can't expect it not to be there. If I am critical of you, you will definitely react, no? So, same thing. That has nothing to do with what happened 30 years ago or what has happened today. It has always remained that way," Benegal said. The only difference, he pointed out, is that the matters snowball into controversies because now "media tends to exaggerate" the issue and since there are multiple channels of communication, news and views become more magnified than before.