Standard of cinema still continues to fall prey to the hypocritical standards of critical appreciation in India. Authoritarian government bodies like the CBFC – Central Board of Film Certification become awful Critics taking in consideration points like…
- Social Morality
- Religious Ideologies
- Language
- Offensiveness
&
A lot of useless things…
What misses out here are realistic concepts that if would have been allowed would have brought about positive reforms in mindsets of audience, evolving them and giving them exposure to a better cinematic experience.
Unfortunately this dictatorship of the Censor Board continues its wrath on film makers yet again, by banning Chandraprakash Dwiwedi’s “Mohalla Assi”
Mohalla Assi (Hindi: मोहल्ला अस्सी) is a Bollywood satirical film starring Sunny Deol.
The film is loosely based on Dr. Kashinath Singh’s popular Hindi novel Kashi Ka Assi, a satire on the commercialization of the pilgrimage city, and fake gurus who lure the foreign tourists. Assi Ghat is a ghat in Varanasi (Banaras) on the banks of Ganges River, and the film is based in a famous and historical ‘Mohalla’ (locality) by the ghat, on the southern end of Banaras. Also starring Ravi Kishan and Sakshi Tanwar, the film is set in the post-independence period. Sunny Deol plays the lead role of Sanskrit teacher and an orthodox religious priest (Pundit) while Sakshi Tanwar plays his wife.
Banning of films by censor board should not haunt the film makers and directors and in order to safe guard our creative expression another director of a banned fim “Unfreedom” Mr. Raj Amit Kumar has started this petition addressing the Prime Minister of India to keep the Censor Board limited to only rating of films and not cutting and banning them. Sign the petition to reverse the ban imposed on films like “Mohalla Assi” and “Unfreedom” why let someone else choose what you need to watch and what not? Sign the petition against censorship here
Here’s the trailer of the latest banned film Mohalla Assi…
Written & Compiled By : Anurag Pandey
Source: Focus News
