Indeed, I agree with the censor about the film - it could create violence in some pockets, and my suggestion to the producers is to add a disclaimer at the beginning, then the film would be understood in its context.
I wish I could write about this film, but you have to see it.
Mike Ghouse
Film "Kaum De Heere" banned from Indian Theaters
NEW DELHI — A government body has blocked
the release of a film dramatizing the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi, which had been scheduled for release Friday, on the grounds that
it could incite religious tensions.
Critics said the Punjabi-language film,
“Kaum De Heere,” depicted Mrs. Gandhi’s killers in a favorable or even
romanticized light. Mrs. Gandhi was gunned down by two of her own bodyguards,
who were Sikh; the assassination was followed by riots throughout India in which
thousands of Sikhs were killed.
The Central Board of Film Certification,
whose approval is required before any film can be shown in Indian theaters, had
originally cleared “Kaum De Heere” for release but reversed its decision on
Thursday. That reversal came after the Home Ministry called the film “highly
objectionable,” according to a report in
the Press Trust of India.
“The problem lies in the fact that it
eulogizes things it shouldn’t,” Leela Samson, chairwoman of the Central Board of
Film Certification, said of the film on Friday. “Like taking the law into your
own hands.”
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