An Indian director has vowed to go to court in order to challenge the
country’s official censor board which refused to allow the release of his
film Paanch on grounds that it was too violent. Director Anurag
Kashyap told today’s (Friday) Times of India, “My film deals with the
psychology of violence. It’s a disturbing movie but the acts of violence are
not shown, they are only suggested.” But the censor board’s chairman, Vijay
Anand, a veteran filmmaker in his own right, said, “Some kind of decency
must prevail. We’re trying to protect families and children from watching
what they shouldn’t. We’re going to be very liberal, yet strict.”
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