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CBFC revamp need of the hour: Rakeysh Mehra
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The governments initiative to revamp the framework within which the countrys film censorship board functions is a welcome move and the need of the hour, said filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.
The government's initiative to revamp the framework within which the country's film censorship board functions is a welcome move and the 'need of the hour,' said filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.
Mehra is part of the newly-appointed revamp panel led by celebrated filmmaker and director Shyam Benegal.
On January 1, the government announced the formation of the Benegal Committee to recommend a holistic framework for the country's film censor board, and to suggest changes in the Cinematograph Act, so that artistic creativity and freedom are not curtailed.
Led by filmmaker Shyam Benegal, an auteur of parallel Indian cinema, the panel also includes ad guru Piyush Pandey, veteran film journalist Bhawana Somaaya, National Film Development Corporation managing director Nina Lath Gupta, and the joint secretary (Films) in the information and broadcasting ministry as the Member Convenor, besides Mehra.
Mehra said that they will all put their minds together to create the road map for the changes required in the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
Will it primarily be about suggesting changes to the framework of film certification or about recommending alterations in the Cinematograph Act, 1952?
"I think a bit of everything. It's something we have to sit together and deliberate upon, because, it may sound rhetorical but we have to move with changing times.
Times have changed, and there is a tremendous change from the days when the framework for the Cinematograph Act was made," added Mehra.
"We are now living in a different world, and so we would like to take things to a next level. There is so much connectivity and information that change is the need of the hour," he said.
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