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Ugly to finally release as Anurag Kashyap agrees to insert anti-smoking disclaimer
9:43 AM
Bharati Dubey (MID-DAY; May 24, 2014)
Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly may finally release in cinema halls. The filmmaker has
decided to continue with his fight against inserting disclaimers in
smoking scenes of the film but he wants the producers of the film to
release the film.
Anurag says, "The film’s producers have stood by me throughout but I don’t want to delay the film any more because so much is at stake. I will soon make a presentation for the new government to consider as the court has given me such an option". It maybe recalled here that Kashyap had challenged the notification that made it mandatory for filmmakers to put anti-smoking disclaimers during smoking scenes in a film. In his petition, the filmmaker pleaded for the rule to be set aside.
In response to this, the Central Board of Film Certification restrained the filmmaker from releasing the film Ugly after which he moved court in December. But the court did not give him any interim relief and instead asked him to make a presentation before the central government.
Vivek Rangachari of Dar Motion Pictures, which is co-producing Ugly, says, “ We are in the process of finalising the film’s release date. Our fight will go on but we will comply with the board’s directives and insert the no smoking disclaimer as we don’t want to delay the film’s release." Ugly, earlier slated to release on October 11 last year, is also releasing in France sometime in June.
Rangachari says, “Internationally, the film will see a limited release; we plan to release the film a little later in India.’’
Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly may finally release in cinema halls. The filmmaker has
decided to continue with his fight against inserting disclaimers in
smoking scenes of the film but he wants the producers of the film to
release the film.Anurag says, "The film’s producers have stood by me throughout but I don’t want to delay the film any more because so much is at stake. I will soon make a presentation for the new government to consider as the court has given me such an option". It maybe recalled here that Kashyap had challenged the notification that made it mandatory for filmmakers to put anti-smoking disclaimers during smoking scenes in a film. In his petition, the filmmaker pleaded for the rule to be set aside.
In response to this, the Central Board of Film Certification restrained the filmmaker from releasing the film Ugly after which he moved court in December. But the court did not give him any interim relief and instead asked him to make a presentation before the central government.
Vivek Rangachari of Dar Motion Pictures, which is co-producing Ugly, says, “ We are in the process of finalising the film’s release date. Our fight will go on but we will comply with the board’s directives and insert the no smoking disclaimer as we don’t want to delay the film’s release." Ugly, earlier slated to release on October 11 last year, is also releasing in France sometime in June.
Rangachari says, “Internationally, the film will see a limited release; we plan to release the film a little later in India.’’
Anurag Kashyap to file petition against Censor's directive on smoking in films
9:58 PM
Asira Tarannum (MID-DAY; November 26, 2013)
Director
Anurag Kashyap will be filing a petition in the Bombay High Court today
challenging the directive on smoking in Hindi films. The director was in
a stand off mode with the Censor Board since the last six months as he
refused to take the Censor certificate for his film, Ugly.
The petition reads: ‘Such unreasonable conditions clearly fetter the rights of filmmakers to free speech and expression enshrined by the Constitution of India.
Running a scroll not only destroys the aesthetic value of cinema but also diverts viewers from the film playing before their eyes thus denting their pleasure of the cinema viewers. The rules also prescribe health and anti-tobacco messages and disclaimers to be given during the middle of the film depicting tobacco products or their use. Such a provision will make it impossible to make a film without an intermission, even if the filmmaker so desires.’
Kashyap says, “As a pre-condition for certification of my film Ugly, the CBFC has directed me to insert a disclaimer on the shots, where a cigarette is shown and has refused to certify my film if I don’t include it.”
He adds, “I feel my film is my property and is not an advertisement hoarding for the health ministry. I make films borrowed from what’s happening in society and I take my films very seriously unlike the various government agencies who still adhere by the 80-year-old conservative definition of cinema as a variety entertainment. If smoking and tobacco consumption is a huge problem for the society, it’s the responsibility of the health ministry to see to it that the tobacco production is stopped and it’s consumption is banned in the country. They can’t thrust their inability to do that and make it my responsibility to rid the society of social ills. I want to take the legal route to contest their illogical and unfair rule and challenge it in court.”
The movie was supposed to release this year, but has been pushed back
due to the filmmaker’s unwillingness to carry the ‘Cigarette smoking is
injurious to health’ disclaimer in the scenes that depict characters
smoking.
Anurag Kashyap, Phantom Films Private Limited and
DAR Motion Pictures are proposing to file a petition in
furtherance of a letter by the CBFC refusing to grant certification for
the film Ugly.The petition reads: ‘Such unreasonable conditions clearly fetter the rights of filmmakers to free speech and expression enshrined by the Constitution of India.
Running a scroll not only destroys the aesthetic value of cinema but also diverts viewers from the film playing before their eyes thus denting their pleasure of the cinema viewers. The rules also prescribe health and anti-tobacco messages and disclaimers to be given during the middle of the film depicting tobacco products or their use. Such a provision will make it impossible to make a film without an intermission, even if the filmmaker so desires.’
Kashyap says, “As a pre-condition for certification of my film Ugly, the CBFC has directed me to insert a disclaimer on the shots, where a cigarette is shown and has refused to certify my film if I don’t include it.”
He adds, “I feel my film is my property and is not an advertisement hoarding for the health ministry. I make films borrowed from what’s happening in society and I take my films very seriously unlike the various government agencies who still adhere by the 80-year-old conservative definition of cinema as a variety entertainment. If smoking and tobacco consumption is a huge problem for the society, it’s the responsibility of the health ministry to see to it that the tobacco production is stopped and it’s consumption is banned in the country. They can’t thrust their inability to do that and make it my responsibility to rid the society of social ills. I want to take the legal route to contest their illogical and unfair rule and challenge it in court.”
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