People at CBFC are cinema illiterate: Saheb Bibi Golaam actor Anjan Dutta
Criticising the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for suggesting cuts to Bengali film Saheb Bibi Golaam and several other films, National Award-winning filmmaker Anjan Dutta said wrong people were occupying posts in board. “There are wrong people occupying chairs at censor board. People who don’t know differences between a kiss and slap. People who are cinema illiterate,” he says.
Criticising the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for suggesting cuts to Bengali film Saheb Bibi Golaam and several other films, National Award-winning filmmaker Anjan Dutta said wrong people were occupying posts in board. “There are wrong people occupying chairs at censor board. People who don’t know differences between a kiss and slap. People who are cinema illiterate,” Anjan said.
The director, whose films have faced censor hurdle in the past, was talking at the trailer launch of Saheb Bibi Golaam. “Those who should have rubber stamps in hand are wielding scissors. We need to be less prudish. “We are fed up with the hackneyed tales of daughter-in-law, mother-in-law strifes and tales of divorce. We are getting an overdose of such relationship tales. Let’s go divert a bit, Let’s be radical. let’s go into the darker sides of our lives. No point in being evasive,” Anjan said.
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The director of Saheb Bibi Golaam, Pratim D Gupta, had initially been asked by the regional censor board to edit the character of Bibi.
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The board was even reluctant to give the film ‘A’ certificate. However, the film was sent to a revising committee which asked the director to edit a rape scene and finally the FCAT certified the movie with minor cuts.
Anjan, who plays the flamboyant character of Saheb in the film chronicling the journey of three characters - Saheb, Golaam (Ritwik Chakraborty) and Bibi (Swastika Mukherjee), said the film tackled headlong the issues like how women were being exploited in many Bengali urban households and is not pretentious unlike most Bengali films.
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“Apart from a few promising ones, most filmmakers don’t seem to be interested in film making any more here. They have turned to film-making as they have apparently nothing else to do,” the director.
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Saheb Bibi Golaam will be released in end-August.
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