Mumbai, June 15 :    Mumbai, June 15:  The censor board wants cuts in War and Peace, a hard-hitting documentary by Anand Patwardhan that points an accusing finger at the Sangh parivar for nuclearising India while not sparing the fundamentalist forces in Pakistan either. The board wants six cuts in the film, despite the fact that it was adjudged the best film/video at the Mumbai International Film Festival held by the Films Division of India, which comes under the ministry of information and broadcasting. The censor board's reaction 'makes remarkable reading', but it shows that 'we were up against a very interested party with a strong political agenda', the director said in a statement. The cuts have been demanded keeping two things in mind - scenes where saffron leaders are shown 'making fools of themselves' and where Dalit leaders are speaking out, he said. One cut the board wants is a scene where a Dalit neo-Buddhist argues that it is a tremendous irony for nuclear tests to be carried out on Buddha's birthday or for Buddha's name to be used as a military code to mark the tests when Buddha was always unarmed. The board has asked Patwardhan to 'delete the entire sequence with visuals and dialogues spoken by the Dalit leader'. 'Cut number three is a demand to cut a Dalit song which describes the killing of Mahatma Gandhi by a Brahmin,' Patwardhan said. The censor board also wants the statement by a leading scientist that 'China is our next possible enemy' and all references to the Tehelka episode out. 'Cut number six is the clincher,' Patwardhan said. 'Under the heading GENERAL is the amazing diktat: 'Delete the entire visuals and dialogues spoken by political leaders, including a minister and Prime Minister'.' War and Peace shows leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pramod Mahajan extolling the virtues of the N-bomb. Mahajan is shown making a ridiculous speech, all rhetoric and no logic. 'There are so many leaders in my film. If these guidelines are to be followed, nobody can make any film,' accused Patwardhan. 'The censor board has been taken over by certain political people.' War and Peace had faced problems before also. It was pulled off unaccountably from the Calcutta Short Film Festival, where it was supposed to be the opening film. The censor board also stopped screening at a Mumbai auditorium. 'The regional officer of the censor board in Mumbai boasted that he would stop the Calcutta screening,' added Patwardhan.