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Smoking, drinking scenes can't be kept out of films: Pyarelal 

Legendary music director Pyarelal of the Laxmikant-Pyarelal duo has joined the debate doing the rounds triggered by Union Health Minister remarks about keeping smoking and drinking scenes out of films.

The music director says such a situation is impossible as the scripts demands such characters and imposing such restrictions would be tantamount to limiting artistic creativity.

"If an actor is playing the role of a crook, how can you expect that a devotional song will be picturised on him without a cigarette or alcohol in his hand? I think that will limit the creativity of the writer or director,"says Prarelal.

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