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Dibakar Banerjee: ‘All of us turn into hustlers when we go and present our films to the censor board’

Dibakar Banerjee on our systemic censorship problems and why the CBFC is just a convenient punching bag

5 min read14 Jul 2018
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Shyam Benegal: It is not the job of the CBFC to function as a moral custodian of the public

Shyam Benegal on heading a committee that reassessed the censorship process, and his own experiences with official censure

5 min read14 Jul 2018
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The woman of a censor’s dream

The censor board has been quick to bring out the scissors when female characters challenge patriarchyor simply speak their minds

8 min read14 Jul 2018
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100 years of film censorship in India

A full century after the Cinematograph Act of 1918, cinema and censorship still share a close, uncomfortable relationship

14 min read14 Jul 2018

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