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Banned For Portraying Same-Sex Relations: In Talks With The Director Of ‘Unfreedom’

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Newsfeed

With bans in India becoming a running gag for snickering-yet-anxious netizens, it’s slowly becoming hard to keep track of the things that our government won’t allow us to see, hear, or read, for one absurd reason or the other. The latest film to be struck down by the Central Board of Film Certification, ‘Unfreedom’, is in no mood to take this lying down. What...

Unfreedom Director, Raj Amit Kumar on America’s most famous The Marilu Henner Show

Posted on May 18, 2015May 21, 2015 by Newsfeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRVWSeYvGk4

अनफ्रीडम : आजादी की दरकार

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Newsfeed

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...

Unfazed By The Ban, Controversial Film ‘Unfreedom’ Was Screened In Mumbai!

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Newsfeed

'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...

सेंसर बोर्ड का कॉन्सेप्ट ही गलत

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Newsfeed

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 of Unfreedom holds a private screening in Mumbai

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Newsfeed

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...

Undeterred by ban, Unfreedom shown in Mumbai and US

Posted on May 13, 2015May 13, 2015 by Newsfeed

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...

Gods of All Passions

Posted on May 12, 2015May 12, 2015 by Newsfeed

UNFREEDOM. Director: Raj Amit Kumar. Players: Victor Banerjee, Adil Hussain, Bhanu Uday, Preeti Gupta, Bhavani Lee. English and Hindi with Eng. sub-titles. (Dark Frames). Releasing May 29 (Dark Frames Studio). Extreme viewer discretion advised. First-time filmmaker Kumar’s debut work Unfreedom marches to the beat of a very different drum. Banned in Kumar’s native Ind...

Unfreedom, A Film Banned In India, Pointless Dealings of Censor Board

Posted on May 5, 2015May 11, 2015 by Newsfeed

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...

‘Unfreedom’ filmmaker campaigns for abolition of Censor Board

Posted on April 21, 2015April 22, 2015 by Newsfeed

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...