72 Hoorain Trailer: Ashoke Pandit Lashes Out At Parsoon Joshi And CBFC For Rejecting Film’s Trailer! Says 'We'll Rip Them Off'
Ashoke Pandit slammed Parsoon Joshi, Chairperson of CBFC, and questioned how could the board reject the censor certificate for an award-winning film
Ashoke Pandit, Indian filmmaker and Indian Film and Television Directors’ Association (IFTDA) chief slammed the Censor Board for rejecting the trailer of 72 Hoorain, which he was co-producing. On June 27, he contended that the Board refused to give a certificate to the trailer of the movie set for release on July 7.
Directed by Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan, 72 Hoorain stars Pavan Malhotra and Aamir Bashir in the lead and focuses on the consequences of violent extremism.
Ashoke Pandit, who was upset with the decision, maintained that there's 'something wrong' with the CBFC.
During his recent interaction with ETimes, the IFTDA chief also slammed Parsoon Joshi, Chairperson of CBFC, and questioned how could the board reject the censor certificate for an award-winning film at the Indian Panorama section at IFFI.
He said, "We're going to rip off the censor board tomorrow. Who are these people sitting there? It's a very serious matter. All the authorities of the censor board are answerable for this decision of rejecting the certificate for the trailer of a National Award-winning film. The film also won an award at the Indian Panorama section at IFFI. How can you reject the censor certificate to that film? There's something wrong in the censor board and Prasoon Joshi is answerable. There are some black sheeps in the censor board."
He added, "We have shown the feet of a dead body which CBFC has asked to remove. A reference to the Qur'an has been asked to be removed. There's something else regarding animal welfare too, but that's not important. You have issued a censor certificate to the film. The trailer consists of the same visuals. So, how can you reject the trailer?"
Previously, Ashoke Pandit, in a video message, also appealed to Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur and Prasoon Joshi to pull up the people in the censor body who are trying "to snatch away our creative independence and freedom of expression".
72 Hoorain had its premiere under the Indian Panorama section at the 2019 International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, where it received the ICFT-UNESCO GANDHI MEDAL Special Mention, reported Free Press Journal.
In 2021, Chauhan won the National Film Award for best direction for the film.
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