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Vishwaroopam ban: Kamal Haasan fed up and wants to leave the country for a more ‘secular’ place
The superstar is frustrated with the ban on his ambitious film Vishwaroopam and says the plot is not even about Indian Muslims
Kamal Haasan is just fed up. Even though the Madras High Court on January 29 lifted the ban on of Haasan’s controversial film Vishwaroopam, the Tamil Nadu government is objecting to it, saying that the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has not given a correct rating. The censor board has hit back. The actor though can’t take it no more, and wants to leave the country to a more ‘secular‘ place. Click here to read more1 Comment
ROWDY RATHORE – artistic images!
Will the Akshay Kumar-Sonakshi Sinha starrer revive the lost art of hand-painted posters?
A movie poster is used to advertise a film. Posters are very important as they create the first impression and buzz about a movie before it hits the screen. Click here to read moreSiddharth Roy Kapur: CCI judgement for film associations is a landmark event
The Competition Commission of India has fined regional film bodies for anti-competitive practices
Thank God for democracy and by extension, thank the government for the Competition Commission of India (CCI). We’ve been led to believe from early childhood that we live in a free country with freedom of expression, freedom to do business etc. Right? Wrong. In reality, we live in a draconian state where anything against the perceived grain is immediately frowned upon and censured (add your own MF Husain, Valentine’s Day or your pet grouse here). But fear not, because of the redoubtable CCI, at least we now have the freedom to watch movies. Click here to read moreMF Husain documentary to be screened at IFFI
A film documentary by late painter MF Husain will finally be screened at the ongoing 42nd International Film Festival of India despite right wing protests, said organisers Tuesday. Speaking to reporters, festival director Shankar Mohan said Husain’s documentary Through the Eyes of a Painter would “definitely be screened” Wednesday, but a slot had not been finalised yet. “We are looking for a slot. It will definitely be screened,” he said. Mohan had said Saturday that the screening of the documentary, which is part of a homage by the film fraternity to the artist who died this year, had been ‘deferred’ after protests from right wing organisation Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS), which had claimed that screening of the documentary would amount to contempt of court as a case regarding the screening of the film was ‘sub judice’. Rajshree Gadekar, chief of the women’s wing of HJS said the 1967 film shot by Husain and produced by the Films Division of India (FDI) should not be screened at the festival because the painter had insulted India. Mohan said the IFFI organisers had sought advice “in our own way and arrived at clarity on the matter”.
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MF Husain’s documentary film not screened at IFFI
Bowing to pressure from rightwing Hindu groups, organisers of the 42nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) deferred the screening of legendary artist MF Husain’s documentary. Speaking to reporters Sunday, IFFI director Shankar Mohan said the screening of Through the Eyes of a Painter was a homage by the film fraternity to the late artist. Mohan said the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) had told them that a case regarding the documentary was pending in court. “We do not want to do anything illegal, so we are taking a legal opinion,” he said. The documentary had won the Golden Bear prize at the Berlin film festival.
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