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Censor is behaving like a homophobic society: Hansal Mehta on Aligarh
31 Jan 2016 |
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| Manoj Bajpayee plays the lead role in Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh. (Eros Now) |
By giving his an A certificate to the first trailer of his next film, Aligarh, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) was acting like a cultural police and thwarting its promotions, filmmaker Hansal Mehta has alleged. Starring Manoj Bajpayee and Rajkumar Rao in lead roles, the film which deals with the stigma surrounding homosexuality.
“This is an attempt to thwart my promotion. They cannot ban the film, because my film does not in any way go against the guidelines of the Cinematograph Act,” he said on the sidelines of the maiden Difficult Dialogues conference in Goa. “This is the cultural police deciding what we should see... I’m furious and very angry, because they’ve violated my expression,” he added.
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| Rajkumar Rao and Manoj Bajpayee in a still from Aligarh. (Eros) |
Aligarh is based on the real life incident of Professor Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras of Aligarh Muslim University, who was terminated from his job because of his sexuality. Rajkummar Rao plays a journalist in the film who is trying to bring his story to the world.
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| URL:- http://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/aligarh-trailer-gets-a-certificate-censor-represents-backward-mindset-says-hansal-mehta/story-CKeRA8gqTVaiCl3tZzKWCI.html |
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