फ़रवरी सें सेंसर board के पास फाइल pending है. बदसलूकी की जाती है फिल्म निर्मातो सें ऑफिस में!
Two filmmakers from Mumbai have been asked by the Censor Board chairperson Pahlaj Nihalani to get a no-objection certificate from none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi to get their documentary on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal released in India.
Khusboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla, the makers of Hindi-English documentary titled An Insignificant Man, have chronicled the anti-corruption protests of which Anna Hazare was the face, and which resulted in the birth of the Aam Aadmi Party, the NDA sweeping to power at the Centre, and Kejriwal becoming the Delhi Chief Minister with a thumping majority.
The documentary, produced by the Ship of Theseus director Anand Gandhi, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, and has since been screened at 40 festivals across the world. Over the next few weeks, it will be screened in Sydney, New Zealand, and Washington.
Ranka and Shukla told Mumbai Mirror that the Censor Board asked them to delete all references to the BJP and the Congress from their documentary, and also submit NoCs from Modi, former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit, and Kejriwal, among others. When they approached Pahlaj Nihalani, he “threw them out of his office” saying he didn’t owe them an explanation.
The filmmakers said they applied for certification in February. “At the end of the screening for the Censor Board’s examining committee, we were told the members didn’t want to speak to us or even hear us out. When we asked if they had any concerns, we were told that everything would be conveyed to us in a letter which arrived 10 days later,” Shukla said.
Khusboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla, the makers of Hindi-English documentary titled An Insignificant Man, have chronicled the anti-corruption protests of which Anna Hazare was the face, and which resulted in the birth of the Aam Aadmi Party, the NDA sweeping to power at the Centre, and Kejriwal becoming the Delhi Chief Minister with a thumping majority.
The documentary, produced by the Ship of Theseus director Anand Gandhi, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, and has since been screened at 40 festivals across the world. Over the next few weeks, it will be screened in Sydney, New Zealand, and Washington.
Ranka and Shukla told Mumbai Mirror that the Censor Board asked them to delete all references to the BJP and the Congress from their documentary, and also submit NoCs from Modi, former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit, and Kejriwal, among others. When they approached Pahlaj Nihalani, he “threw them out of his office” saying he didn’t owe them an explanation.
The filmmakers said they applied for certification in February. “At the end of the screening for the Censor Board’s examining committee, we were told the members didn’t want to speak to us or even hear us out. When we asked if they had any concerns, we were told that everything would be conveyed to us in a letter which arrived 10 days later,” Shukla said.