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भारत जैसे आजाद मुल्क में इन दिनों ‘बैन’ यानी ‘प्रतिबंध’ शब्द अखबारों और समाचार चैनलों में खूब सुर्खियां बटोर रहा है. आम तौर पर प्रतिबंध का नाम सुनते ही किसी ‘कठमुल्ला’ और उसके उल-जुलूल फतवे का ध्यान आता है, मगर हमारे देश में इन दिनों सेंसर बोर्ड (केंद्रीय फिल्म प्रमाणन बोर्ड) और प्रतिबंध एक दूसरे का पर्याय बनते नजर आ रहे हैं. सेंसर बोर्ड की पूर्व अध्यक्ष लीला सैमसन के इस...

  'Unfreedom', director Raj Amit Kumar's hugely controversial film was banned in India a while ago. Why? Well, since it deals with sensitive issues like homosexuality and torture of a pacifist Muslim intellectual, our censor board thought it may evoke 'unnatural' passion in the audience! Well, whatever that means! But the latest development on the movie is that d...

आपकी फिल्म किस बारे में है?  फिल्म में दो अलग-अलग कहानियां हैं. दो अलग-अलग मुद्दे हैं. ये दोनों कहानियां कैसे एक-दूसरे से जुड़ती है ये दर्शक देखेंगे तो समझ जाएंगे. कोई भी फिल्मकार जब कुछ बनाता है तो ऐसे ही नहीं बनाता. जब आप फिल्म देखेंगे तो पाएंगे कि लगभग एक ही जैसी मानसिकता के लोग दोनों कहानियों में मौजूद हैं. दोनों में आपको किरदारों और स्थितियों की ‘मिरर इमेज’ नजर आएगी...

  Director Raj Amit Kumar’s socio-political drama film Unfreedom unfortunately did not receive a clearance by the Indian Censor Board due to its highly volatile content on the lines of terrorism and sexuality. Kumar appealed to Indian Government's Information and Broadcasting Appellate Tribunal FCAT who later completely banned the film regardless of cuts. However, t...

Raj Amit Kumar’s  hugely controversial film about a lesbian runaway bride in Delhi  and terrorist’s torture of a pacifist Islamic intellectual in New York has been banned outright  by India’s Censor Board. But the director is undeterred as he screens the film all over the world. Raj screened the though-provoking film at the Indian Institute Of Technology in Mumbai on May...

At present, we are living in the age of internet and surrounded by things like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. And as far as we know, these tools are the great medium for every common person to raise his or her voice in favor or against any issue, matter or personality on social media platform. And today, with this article we are also trying to promote and protect the free...

Raj Amit Kumar, the director of the movie “Unfreedom” that was banned by the Indian Censor Board, is now campaigning for the complete abolition of the Censor Board and to bring about a new institution to rate the films according to “age”. “Unfreedom”, the movie explores various issues like religion, sexuality and terrorism. The Censor Board was reportedly irked by the se...

Religion and identity — the two have confronted filmmaker Raj Amit Kumar since he was growing up in Muzaffarnagar in northern UP. “I have seen people pay the price with their lives for being part of a certain minority community. I have lived through that hardship and always wondered the cause behind it,” says the US-based filmmaker, over a phone conversation. It is these qu...

        Joining issue with Indian censors for banning his controversial film "Unfreedom", director raj (ed: correct) Amit Kumar says "the most important social responsibility of an artist is to express freely and fearlessly". "Do filmmakers make films to give away messages," asked Kumar during an interview with IANS. He is currently engaged in a court batt...

Before we proceed with the stuff directly, can you tell me do the dreams come true? I know it’s nothing but a crazy question which we are raising genuinely but will insist on the same in a different way have a look. Though the golden dreams are like something that won’t come true however, if we talk about a film which is ‘Banned’ then? Have you paused a bit? I guess you mig...