Censor flags docu on Amartya Sen |
Taking a stance against the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), filmmaker Suman Ghosh will not release his documentary `Argumentative Indian` in Kolkata this weekend as scheduled. The film, which documents the life of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, was flagged by the censor board for its use of the words `Gujarat`, `Hindu India`, `Cow` and `Hindutva view of India`, reported The Telegraph. Ghosh was told the film can only release once the words, which are used in the film in the context of the current political climate, are censored. Ghosh said the attitude of the censor board just underlines the relevance of the documentary in which Sen highlights the growing intolerance in India. Such scrutiny of any criticism of the government in a democratic country is shocking. There is no way he would agree to beep or mute or change anything that one of the greatest minds of our times has said in the documentary.” In the film, shot in two parts in 2012 and 2017, Sen uses the word `Gujarat` during a lecture at Cornell University.
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