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CBFC A Cultural Police, Represents Backward Mindset: Hansal Mehta

CBFC A Cultural Police, Represents Backward Mindset: Hansal Mehta

by The Daily Eye Team February 3 2016, 9:10 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 28 secs

Director Hansal Mehta on January 30 alleged that the Censor Board was acting like a cultural police and thwarting promotion of his upcoming film “Aligarh”, which deals with the stigma surrounding homosexuality, by giving its trailer an ‘A’ certificate. “This is an attempt to thwart my promotion. They cannot ban the film, because my film does not in any way go against the guidelines of the Cinematograph Act,” he told PTI on the sidelines of the maiden Difficult Dialogues conference in Goa. 

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Deepa Gahlot writes extensively on cinema, theatre, the arts, women's issues for several publications and websites. In the past, she worked for tribal development with an NGO, ran a print features syndicate and wrote for a few short documentaries. She has won the National Award for Best Film Criticism, edited several cinema journals. Her work has appeared in anthologies on women's studies, theatre and cinema. Her published books include, The Prithviwallahs (co-authored with Shashi Kapoor), and biographies of Shah Rukh Khan and Shammi Kapoor, Take 2: 50 Films that Deserve a New Audience and Sheroes: 25 Daring Women of Bollywood.


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