Ministry for 'radical changes' in CBFC
NEW DELHI: June 11, 2016, DHNS
The Centre is gearing up to announce radical changes in the functioning of the controversy-ridden Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) soon, with the veteran filmmaker, Shyam Benegal, hoping to submit his committee’s second report suggesting measures on revamping the board next week.
The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry, which received an interim report of the panel in April and waiting for its second report, has fast paced the process at a time when the CBFC was yet again at the centre of a controversy after recommending 89 cuts in the film ‘Udta Punjab’, stoking a nationwide outcry.
While the deadline for submission of second report of the committee is June 20, official sources said that the Ministry has requested Bengal to consider if his panel’s report could be submitted “a bit early”.
Benegal on Friday told PTI that the second report of the committee, headed by him, will be submitted to the I&B Ministry next week, though the deadline for it was June 20.
“The report would be ready and submitted well before June 20 which is the last date," the veteran film maker said.
This comes a day after I&B Minister Arun Jaitley, while speaking at an event organised by the CNN TV18 Group, noted that movie certification norms had to be “liberal” and his Ministry would announce "some very radical changes" in the current norms over the next few days. “There is a well documented report by Shyam Benegal, the first part which has come to me and which is under consideration,” the Union Minister said.
Commenting on the row over the CBFC recommendations for 89 cuts in ‘Udta Punjab’, Jaitley though maintained that he had not seen the film in question, he said that he was not satisfied with the existing system of film certification
“You will probably have a system where you will have to have a certificate. The correct word is certification and not censorship. Certification norms will have to be liberal,” the Union minister said at the event. He, however, kept the details close to his chest on the changes that the Centre would bring in the current film certification process.
The first report of the Benegal committee reportedly has recommended for not accepting films for certification which portrays or promotes misuse of psychotropic substances.
DH News Service
The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry, which received an interim report of the panel in April and waiting for its second report, has fast paced the process at a time when the CBFC was yet again at the centre of a controversy after recommending 89 cuts in the film ‘Udta Punjab’, stoking a nationwide outcry.
While the deadline for submission of second report of the committee is June 20, official sources said that the Ministry has requested Bengal to consider if his panel’s report could be submitted “a bit early”.
Benegal on Friday told PTI that the second report of the committee, headed by him, will be submitted to the I&B Ministry next week, though the deadline for it was June 20.
“The report would be ready and submitted well before June 20 which is the last date," the veteran film maker said.
This comes a day after I&B Minister Arun Jaitley, while speaking at an event organised by the CNN TV18 Group, noted that movie certification norms had to be “liberal” and his Ministry would announce "some very radical changes" in the current norms over the next few days. “There is a well documented report by Shyam Benegal, the first part which has come to me and which is under consideration,” the Union Minister said.
Commenting on the row over the CBFC recommendations for 89 cuts in ‘Udta Punjab’, Jaitley though maintained that he had not seen the film in question, he said that he was not satisfied with the existing system of film certification
“You will probably have a system where you will have to have a certificate. The correct word is certification and not censorship. Certification norms will have to be liberal,” the Union minister said at the event. He, however, kept the details close to his chest on the changes that the Centre would bring in the current film certification process.
The first report of the Benegal committee reportedly has recommended for not accepting films for certification which portrays or promotes misuse of psychotropic substances.
DH News Service
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