CBFC to take legal action against producers with criminal charges
| Jul 12, 2017, 16:42 IST
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has come to learn in a hurry to undertake the process of film distribution days before the release, producers have been sending off their films without proper censor certification from them.
Appalled and armed with a list of these guilty producers, CBFC chairperson Pahlaj Nihalani says the board is all set to take the strongest criminal action against the practitioners of this offence. “Producers have been sending off their films overseas without proper censor certification for many years now. Earlier deadlines could be beaten by ‘purchasing’ censor certificates for as little as Rs 10,000. I put an end to this unsavoury practice. So, producers found a new devious method of beating the deadline. They dispatch their films to the overseas market without certificates or with wrong certificates.”
He further warned, “’Wrong certificate’ is explained as… inserting an old film’s censor certificate with a new release. Nobody checks the details on the certificate, so producers get away with this duplicity. We have a list of filmmakers who have indulged in this criminal practice. And we tend to initiate the strongest legal action against anyone, who dispatches films to overseas territories without a proper censor certificate.”
CREDITS: DNA
Appalled and armed with a list of these guilty producers, CBFC chairperson Pahlaj Nihalani says the board is all set to take the strongest criminal action against the practitioners of this offence. “Producers have been sending off their films overseas without proper censor certification for many years now. Earlier deadlines could be beaten by ‘purchasing’ censor certificates for as little as Rs 10,000. I put an end to this unsavoury practice. So, producers found a new devious method of beating the deadline. They dispatch their films to the overseas market without certificates or with wrong certificates.”
He further warned, “’Wrong certificate’ is explained as… inserting an old film’s censor certificate with a new release. Nobody checks the details on the certificate, so producers get away with this duplicity. We have a list of filmmakers who have indulged in this criminal practice. And we tend to initiate the strongest legal action against anyone, who dispatches films to overseas territories without a proper censor certificate.”
CREDITS: DNA