Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah criticised Censor Board for being ‘narrow-minded’. Starring his wife Ratna Pathak Shah in ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’, the actor cannot figure out the reason why CBFC initially denied certification to the film.
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CBFC’s narrow-minded approach
- Complaining the Censor Board, Shah said, “I really don’t know what problem they had with the film.
- I think they have a problem with female sexuality being portrayed on screen.
- What the film’s success has done is that it has shown [the Censor Board] up, and what they thought about the film’’.
- Shah claims to have watched the film twice, calls it a wonderfully made film which talks about what is going on in society.
- Criticising further he said, “One has to ask a psychiatrist as to why they are afraid of [female sexuality] on screen.
- It’s very frightening to see that the Censor Board can do
- whatever it wants and practice its biases openly and ban films that it doesn’t like’’.
- Directed by Alankrita Shrivastava, ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ finally received certificate after being asked to have 16 cuts in the film.
- Calling Censor Board to be dictatorial, he said, “They are supposed to give a film a certificate;
- They are no authority to ban a film, or stay its release. But then they claim to be someone who can do that.
- Their narrow-minded approach affects the film industry. But nothing has been done about it’’.
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