CBFC is still not mending its ways and yet another film has fallen an easy prey to its wrath after ‘Udta Punjab’. Even when CBFC’s claims and demands fell flat after the Bombay High court’s verdict on Udta Punjab, it seems that they still not ready to change their perception on passing a film.

Debutant Shlok Sharma’s Haraamkhor, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and  Shweta Tripathi revolves around the plot of an illicit relationship between a 14-year-old girl and her tuition teacher.

The film won the Silver Gateway Award (i.e. the runners-up) in the India Gold section of the 17th Jio MAMI Film Festival held in Mumbai last October.

According to the board the entire theme of the film seems highly objectionable to them thus it has declined to pass the film after a screening held last week, said Guneet Monga, one of the producers of the film.

A source close to the production house said:

“Their main issue is that teachers are revered people in society and they can’t be shown having an affair with an underage girl. They also had some objections with the depiction of children making lewd gestures, using profanity, and committing acts of violence.”

Guneet argued by saying that such incidents do happen in the society then how it can be objectionable and the film has won awards and accolades in many places around the world and people have connected with it. But the board refused to debate the matter and they sent a letter to the makers of the film instructing them that they are free to take their film to Revising Committee or to the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT).

Talking about the option they’re left with, Monga added,

“It’s a small, mostly crowdfunded film. We don’t have the resources to go and fight this out in the courts.”

By seeing this it seems that another freedom of speech battle is on its way.

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