{"id":33601,"date":"2018-10-30T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33601"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:10:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:40:22","slug":"sorry-no-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sorry-no-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry no-show\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/editorials\/sorry-no-show-international-film-festival-india-s-durga-nude-padmavati-4960935\/\"><strong>Sorry no-show\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Repressive mindsets rule in the CBFC and I&amp;B ministry: That\u2019s the message from IFFI\u2019s refusal to screen \u2018S Durga<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&amp;B ministry during the 48th International Film Festival of India (IFFI)refused to allow two films, S Durga and Nude, to be screened in the Indian Panorama section<\/p>\n<p><strong>Censored<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though the director of S Durgagot a directive from the Kerala High Court in favour of the film, and a new jury voted in favour of screening it, officials raised technical objections to deny it screen-space at the IFFI. The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) withdrew its earlier certificate to the film, and sought to re-examine it<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author\u2019s views<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The restrictive mindset revealed by the I&amp;B ministry and the CBFC in denying an independent and acclaimed young film-maker an audience is quite appalling<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In this age of technology, it is absurd that the ministry and CBFC officials believe they can suppress a film by refusing it a censor\u2019s certificate. The film has already been screened in several international and Indian festivals and many more are likely to watch it online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pertinent questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Author raises some important questions,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can a bureaucracy entrusted with the task of promoting cinema so zealously work to curb filmmakers?<\/li>\n<li>What has it gained by usurping the mandate of a jury and censoring the list of films?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry no-show\u00a0\u00a0 Context Repressive mindsets rule in the CBFC and I&amp;B ministry: That\u2019s the message from IFFI\u2019s refusal to screen \u2018S Durga What has happened? I&amp;B ministry during the 48th International Film Festival of India (IFFI)refused to allow two films, S Durga and Nude, to be screened in the Indian Panorama section Censored Though the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sorry-no-show\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sorry no-show\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704828882},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}