Director Alankrita Srivastava’s Lipstick Under My Burkha, the film which the CBFC refused to certify in February 2017, has been declared eligible to participate in the coveted Golden Globes Awards. The announcement was made on the opening night of the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA), where it was screened.
CBFC refused to certify Lipstick Under My Burkha because the board is not comfortable with films on feminism, and the ‘female point of view’, director Alankrita Shrivastava said in a recent interview.
Music composer Gangai Amaren has been named the BJP Candidate for the upcoming byelections in RK Nagar, Chennai.Amaren and Dinakaran have have long been enemies because of a failed land deal.Hansika Motwani has been approached to play the female lead in Sasikumar’s next.The composer has now vowed to get justice for himself and several others by defeating Dinakaran in the elections.
Pahlaj Nihalani has been forced to defend the CBFC’s decision to refuse a censor certificate to Ka Bodyscapes. The film was refused a censor certificate by the Thiruvananthapuram CBFC for showing Lord Hanuman in ‘poor light’ and for the homosexual relationship at its core.
Following the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)’s denial of certification to Alankrita Shrivastava’s Lipstick Under My Burkha, Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) chairman Gajendra Chauhan has said that the rejection clause should be scrapped.When refusing certification to a film, the Censor Board is supposed to cite relevant clauses, such as Section 5b (1) which deals with content that is against the sovereignty of the state, and so on. “The story is lady oriended [sic], their fantasy above life.
Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai, one of the most popular sitcoms on Indian television, is gearing up for a return. The sitcom, which was directed by Devan Bhojani and aired on Star TV in 2005, will make a comeback as a web series, according to a Mumbai Mirror report.
Yet, the pace of the mounting tension is just right. In another scene, with the entire Kapoor clan gathered in the house, Rahul picks up a guitar and Harsh starts humming an old Bollywood number.Kapoor and Sons could have been a bad movie, overloaded with melodramatic moments and unbelievable turns of events.
But for a film trying to discuss gender, it is myopic of the writer to think that a village filled with unmarried men, no matter how non-violent and docile, is the safest place for women.From the comment that equates the forefathers on the walls to CCTV cameras – watching everything and judging – to how Jayeshbhai’s sister reacts while slapping her husband, it all suggests a film that knows what it wants to say.
Released six days before voting in Tamil Nadu began, the film stars an ensemble cast including the likes of Yogi Babu, Sheela Rajkumar and Shangli Murugan. In an interview with Firstpost, Yogi Babu who plays the lead says, “I thought, if this fellow (Pradeep Ranganathan, who directed Comali) who knows me so well, and who has directed me, can cry, then probably I am not that bad with emotion. “Although some rogues get elected to parliament, we will not allow gangster tactics in the election,” says Sanjay Mishra, who plays an officer of the Election Commission of India, in Newton.