CBFC Creates Problems For The Bhatts' LOVE GAMES
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Saturday, 19th Dec 2015, 2:19 PM IST Nowadays CBFC is in news more than any Bollywood celeb. Thanks to its unreasonable rules and regulations, filmmakers are facing a lot of issues. And the latest film to go under the scissors of CBFC is Mahesh Bhatt's 'Love Games'. Recently, Mahesh in his several tweets wrote, "We live in oppressive times. We in Bollywood now have, one of our own as a thought police! Instead of calling the process of limiting our self expression & dissent as "censorship,"he calls it "concern for our SANSKRITI ! his guy feels that we Indians are ready to support repression as long as it is done by hiding behind the high sounding word 'our tradition'." One of the newspapers contacted Mahesh Bhatt and the filmmaker revealed that there is a tiff between them and CBFC for their upcoming film 'Love Games' starring Gaurav Arora and Patralekha. Bhatt, who attended the screening, stated that the Regional Officer and the other members admitted to liking the film. "But then they wanted certain four letter words muted out and kisses pruned down to a few seconds. What was shocking was that they didn't want the hero (Gaurav Arora), a drug addict reformed by love, to be shown consuming hard drugs. How can I show him cured of his addiction unless I establish the fact?" added the filmmaker. Talking about his film 'Daddy', Bhatt said, "The film, which came in the pre-digital era had several scenes of a drunk Anupam Kher. It was aired on the national broadcaster, Doordarshan, and the present Union I&B Minister, Arun Jaitley, had liked it. Today, when every kind of content is streaming into our homes, how can such restrictions be imposed on us?" He also stated that they are not asking for a 'U' or 'U/A' certificate, they want an 'A' certificate for the film. "We will now go to the Tribunal," he said. "Now the Board is trying to strangle freedom of thought and expression. Makers are now practicing pre-censorship, fearful of the outcome when they pick up their pen," the filmmaker added. Talking about CBFC chief, Pahlaj Nihalani, Bhatt said, "He was one of usfighting against the moral code of the censors. Now he has taken us back to the Dark Ages. The CBFC has become the Censor Board." Now you can enjoy ad-free experience by downloading India’s first Box Office mobile app from here –Android: http://bit.ly/BOCapsuleMobileApp and iOS: bit.ly/BOCapsuleiOSApp | |||