03-16-2005, 08:13 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Hedgewar documentary stuck in censor board:</b>
[World News]: Mumbai, Mar.12 : Anything anti-Congress will find it difficult to see the light of the day. While there are couples of blatantly anti-establishment feature films waiting to be cleared, a documentary on the late RSS founder-leader Dr Hegdewar is the first casualty of the Censor Board this year.
Documentary filmmaker Yakub Saeed who has been a part of the television industry for over three decades, submitted this documentary last month, in the hope of Censor clearance. But the Board took a month to decide the fate of the film. Saeed has sent a letter to the Board, asking it for an explanation for stalling the film, when in fact, it was commissioned by Films Division, a government body.
In fact this film was sanctioned by former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. <b>A scene that portrays a conflict between Pandit Nehru and Dr Hedgewar is the point of contention</b>. But Saeed maintains that he has depicted facts, not fiction. (ANI)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
[World News]: Mumbai, Mar.12 : Anything anti-Congress will find it difficult to see the light of the day. While there are couples of blatantly anti-establishment feature films waiting to be cleared, a documentary on the late RSS founder-leader Dr Hegdewar is the first casualty of the Censor Board this year.
Documentary filmmaker Yakub Saeed who has been a part of the television industry for over three decades, submitted this documentary last month, in the hope of Censor clearance. But the Board took a month to decide the fate of the film. Saeed has sent a letter to the Board, asking it for an explanation for stalling the film, when in fact, it was commissioned by Films Division, a government body.
In fact this film was sanctioned by former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. <b>A scene that portrays a conflict between Pandit Nehru and Dr Hedgewar is the point of contention</b>. But Saeed maintains that he has depicted facts, not fiction. (ANI)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->