The movie was banned on a plea filed by Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed alleging that the film contains "filthy propaganda" against him and his outfit.
'From the day I've taken over as chairperson of the CBFC, Ashoke Pandit and Chandraprakesh Diwedi have ganged up against me,' Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani tells Subhash K Jha.
The meeting lasted for nearly two and a half hours.
'As the film was suppose to release on December 1, there are over 50 countries where this process (of certification) is on.'
The committee is scheduled to meet on Thursday.
A sequence showing a female character being slapped during a police interrogation has been axed from Nishikant Kamat's Drishyam by the Censor Board.
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The producers of Padmavati held a special screening for a few journalists.
'Without ever losing hope, I survived in Mumbai with the hope of becoming a good actor.'
Shalu was arrested early this month on a complaint by one Rafique Ali who claimed she had accompanied scam accused Biju Radhakrishnan when he collected Rs 20 lakh from him.
The Kerala high court on Friday refused to stay the release of the controversial multi-lingual film The Kerala Story and said the trailer does not contain anything offensive to any particular community as a whole.
'I believe politics was imposed on it by the censor board, when it gave the film's trailer an A certificate, hoping to deny children, teenagers the opportunity to watch it during prime time television shows,' says Aseem Chhabra.
Dr Rajasekhar is excited about the censor board's response to his latest film.
'When Julie 2 releases, I will tell you whether I am sanskari or not.'
'It's a clean wholesome film to be enjoyed by the whole family.'
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'If Godse's last wish was to let everyone know his views, what's wrong in that?'
The SC said there were enough guidelines to be followed by the censor board to grant certification of a film before its release
The censor board has passed Ki & Ka with a UA certificate.
The Censor Board Of Film Certification(CBFC) has struck again.
The decision to allow import of Indian films was taken after a government committee held consultations with various stakeholders and recommended the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to allow screening of Bollywood movies.
The Benegal panel, in its first report submitted on April 26, had urged the government to lay down a "holistic framework for certification of films."
'Muslims and Dalits must erase the way they remember their past, or carry out their their performances in private,' says Jyoti Punwani, as Maharashtra's Censor Board denies permission to a play Jai Bhim, Jai Bharat.
It was perhaps for the first time that any parliamentary panel deliberated on a film before it had been approved by the censor board.
"Have you (counsel for the petitioner) seen the film? Have the people, who are burning cinema halls seen the film? By this kind of petitions you are encouraging the people who are agitating," the bench observed.
The Board has decided to give a UA certificate to the film.
'We've no objections to women wearing lipstick under a burqa. But the film shows these women doing unmentionable things,'
'Since the entire Sarkar team takes Vijay's wish as the final word, they were adamant not to succumb to government pressure.'
The Allahabad high court on Tuesday expressed concern over the way key characters of the epic Ramayana have been depicted in the controversial movie Adipurush, saying, "Hindus are tolerant but why they are tested every time?"
'When Bad Newz was given to me to direct, the first thing I did was go back to my childhood.' 'It's an ode to Hindi cinema.'
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'Discussion, dialogue and mutual respect for varied points of view,' is what filmmakers can expect from the Censor Board, its new chief Prasoon Joshi tells Subhash K Jha.
Here's imagining Craig's James Bond as a typical Bollywood hero.
Shah Rukh Khan will take the August Kranti Express to Delhi.
The film was postponed from May 9 to 23.
With the arrest of the film censor board's CEO on charges of demanding bribes to clear films, the regulatory role of the panel is in focus once again
Former Indian Censor Board chief Leela Samson talks about her acting debut.
'I'd definitely wish that the audience of Kerala mature. There are a large number of people who welcome sexual scenes or content if it is in a foreign movie but they can't accept this in a regional movie. That attitude of hypocrisy has to change.'
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