Director Hansal Mehta is crying foul after the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF) decided to replace his National Award winning film, Shahid, with Marathi film, Astu. Shahid was apparently supposed to be the opening film at the National Film Festival that began in New Delhi on Sunday, but the organisers decided to screen Astu instead.


Rajkummar Rao won the National Award for Best Actor for his performance in the Hansal Mehta-directed biopic, Shahid 

Mehta says, "On May 15, I was told that Shahid would be the opening film at the National Film Festival; I even confirmed my presence at the event. But it looks like this decision was reversed and I learnt about this only from the internet. I found this entire episode to be very arbitrary and I wonder why I was not informed about the change."