Live
- AI Model Detects Residual Brain Tumors in 10 Seconds, Offers Real-Time Surgical Guidance
- Reliance and Disney Complete JV Deal to Strengthen Entertainment Presence in India
- UP Govt Agrees to Protesters’ Demand, PCS Exam to Be Held in One Day
- Trump’s Social Security Tax Promise Faces Hurdles: What Retirees Need to Know
- Strict Action Needed Against Attacks on Government Employees - Retired Employees
- Hyundai Motor India Limited Announces 2024 Edition of ‘Hyundai Always Around’ Campaign
- Minister for Environment, Forests, and Endowments Celebrates Karthika Pournami and Guru Nanak Jayanti
- World Quality Day: Hindustan Zinc Reaffirms Commitment to Superior Product Quality & Innovation
- Grand Kartika Purnima Celebrations at Nagar Kurnool’s Saraswati Shishu Mandir
- Children’s day celebrations, Karnataka remnisences on Nehru’s contributions
The whole country has become a censor board Irrfan
That never reaches us. It\'s a strange fact that since several years some magazines who have the integrity have written about a state and reported about the severity of the crisis and ten years later when a film is made on it, suddenly it becomes such a big issue.
Actor Irrfan Khan says he is surprised that when a film addresses a crucial issue that has been present for several years, it suddenly becomes a big issue and that the whole country has become a censor board as anyone can make an issue out of anything.
At every moment there are numerous issues.
That never reaches us. It's a strange fact that since several years some magazines who have the integrity have written about a state and reported about the severity of the crisis and ten years later when a film is made on it, suddenly it becomes such a big issue.
My problem is with the fact that we don't even know if it is a censor board or a certificate board. It's a certificate board; it's not a censor board... The whole country has become a censor board in such a way that if some issue is raised someone makes an issue out of it," Irrfan said at the launch of the song Dama Dam from his film Madaari in Mumbai.
The controversy surrounding the film Udta Punjab and its troubles with the censor board have dominated headlines in the past few days. The problem of drugs and the use of the name of the state of Punjab in relation to drugs have been some of the objections of the censor board.
Irrfan said These are all rules made by the British and the blame should not fall on any individual. You appoint someone and he/she goes according to the rulebook. And we are sleeping; the country is sleeping. We don't feel the need to change anything.
So we should take it a bit seriously. The industry should come forward. The industry pays Rs 4,000 crore in taxes, so the government should have some kind of gesture and appreciate those who pay taxes.
We need to wake up and the government should also think about it. Mahesh Bhatt had stated that 40 years ago he had made some film which had got stuck. So we are just sleeping actually.
