Censorship – The Arts

“The government has taken a serious note of the complaints received about the movie. There is a demand to ban the movie,” a Maharashtra minister said.

Bowing down to pressure from right-wing groups, the Maharashtra government has written to the Union government asking to stop the release of Marathi film Khalid ka Shivaji.

The film’s trailer shows a young boy named Khalid who takes inspiration from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

Maharashtra minister Ashish Shelar, while speaking against the film that screened at Cannes earlier this year, said that his government would not tolerate the “perversion of history”, the Hindu reported.

“The government has taken a serious note of the complaints received about the movie. There is a demand to ban the movie. The Central Board of Film Certification comes under the jurisdiction of the Union government. We want to examine how the movie received Censor Board certification – if the committee had studied the movie properly. We also want to know how the movie was selected for the Cannes Film Festival, and if there is any mischief in it. We are going to probe all of it,” Shelar said.