Director Raj Amit Kumar's entrance film "Un-Freedom" starring Adil Hussain and Victor Banerjee in key roles adopting homos.. has been banned in India.The 36-year-old director is the latest who has hit out at the guarantee process in recent times
At being unable to get the required clearance despite an appeal to the Appellate tribunal the filmmaker said such move by Central Board of Film Certification is like taking away the "basic human rights".
"What I am experiencing is tyranny hypocrisy and satire of people. I don't feel any film should be banned in the country. You can only give severe certification and you can remove certain things or the other depending on that" Kumar said.
The film is a modern whodunit that chronicles a lesbian love story set in New York and New Delhi .Censor board officials that the movie had been denied a certificate by the Examining Committee (EC) but later a Revising Committee (RC) had agreed to give it 'A' certification with cuts.
The filmmaker they said had then loomed the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT) which had upheld the decision of the Investigative Committee.
"However the Film Certification Tribunal (FCAT) had heard the substance which set aside the RC's decision and upheld that of the EC" a senior official told PTI when asked to comment on the reports concerning the banning of the film in India.
The film is expected to hit North American theatres on May 29.
