Mumbai: When Bollywood film-maker Kunal Deshmukh set out to make 'Jannat 2', a raunchy tale about arms dealing with plenty of swearing and bare skin, he ended up shooting two versions - one for cinema audiences, and the other for television. Deshmukh was not being extravagant. Like many Indian movie producers and TV broadcasters, he walked a tightrope of catering to the tastes of a rapidly modernising but largely conservative...
03:34 PM, May 30, 2012
Mumbai: Despite not having found a release date in India yet, Miss Lovely is already in the process of paving its way for an international release. Being extremely busy with the films post-production in Berlin, which will be followed by sending his film to the Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia admits that he doesnt have the time to look into the procedures that are required to find a release...
04:04 PM, May 08, 2012
In a never before move by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, 'The Dirty Picture' was declared too dirty for TV and stopped from airing. ...
05:40 PM, Apr 26, 2012
The telecast of 'The Dirty Picture' was banned by the government on prime time on Indian television. ...
11:54 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Kolkata: As Bengali actress Paoli Dam makes her Bollywood debut in Vikram Bhatt's erotic thriller 'Hate Story', her posters are being painted blue in Kolkata to hide her bare back following orders of the Calcutta High Court. The film's regional distributors Kushagra Arts and cinema hall owners are now covering the bare skin of the Bengali bombshell by colouring it with blue ink. Justice Dipankar Dutta of the High Court...
08:09 AM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: Veteran actor Anupam Kher is 'shocked' after reading reports that the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has asked producers of his next film 'Mr.Bhatti On Chutti' to mute dialogues mentioning political leaders George Bush and Manmohan Singh. "Censor board asks makers of my film 'Mr.Bhatti On Chutti' to mute the names of George Bush and Manmohan Singh. Shocking," tweeted the 57-year-old. Directed by Karan Razdan, the movie...
01:43 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Movie viewers in India will soon be able to know why a film has been assigned a particular rating - U, A or U/A - by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). To keep the public better informed, the decision to specify more about what the Board felt about the contents of a film was taken in a recent meeting of the CBFC, officials said. "This move...
05:12 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Cairo: An Egyptian court has ordered the government to ban pornographic Internet websites in order to protect society and its values. The decision and a similar initiative in parliament has fed into fears by liberal and secular Egyptians that their country is moving down the path to fundamentalist Islam, following a sweeping victory by Islamists in parliamentary elections. The ruling Wednesday came from a lower court and can be appealed....
01:29 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Calling the country's IT rules as "flawed", experts at a seminar Thursday said the right to freedom of expression should also provide protection to the content creators. Speaking at a debate organised by Foundation of Media Professionals (FMP) at the India International Centre, veteran journalist R Jagannathan held "vested political interests" responsible for the attempts to curtail freedom of expression of media and censorship on social media. "The...
12:19 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Beijing: Chinese officials have confiscated more than six million illegal publications during the first two months of this year. In all about 1,442 cases were involved, China's national pornographic and illegal publication office said. The crackdown on pornography and illegal publications has expanded the scope from printed publications to online releases in recent years, it said in a statement. The office has intensified investigation and punishment to some government authorities...
09:45 AM, Mar 25, 2012
Mumbai: Actor-producer Saif Ali Khan has said it is a shame that Pakistan's Censor board has banned the release of 'Agent Vinod' in that country. The Bollywood film has been banned in Pakistan as the movie contains references to the ISI that could hurt the sentiments of Pakistani people. "It is a shame that the movie is banned, with no offence to anyone, as the idea is to have open...
01:05 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday quashed criminal proceedings against Microsoft India, one of the 21 websites summoned by a trial court for allegedly hosting objectionable contents. Justice Suresh Kait set aside the trial court order for initiating criminal proceedings against the website. The high court also gave complainant Vinay Rai liberty to file a fresh complaint if he finds later any credible piece of evidence against the...
01:50 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan is advertising for companies to install an Internet filtering system that could block up to 50 million Web addresses, alarming free speech activists who fear current censorship could become much more widespread. Internet access for Pakistan's some 20 million Web users is less restricted than in many countries in Asia and the Arab world, though some pornographic sites and those seen as insulting to Islam are blocked. Others...
10:02 AM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will hear Yahoo India's petition on Monday seeking for the charges against it to be dropped in the objectionable content case. Yahoo is hoping that it will be granted relief like software giant Microsoft at the hearing. The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed criminal proceedings against Yahoo India, which was summoned along with 20 other websites to face trial for allegedly hosting objectionable content...
07:41 AM, Mar 05, 2012
Kolkata: Days before its release in the first week of March 'Macho Mustafa', stated to be the most expensive Bengali film till date, has been renamed as 'Macho Mastana' following prodding by the Censor Board. "As the Censor Board expressed reservations about the title, we sought feedback from community leaders and accordingly the name was changed less than a month before the film's release," director Reshmi Mitra told PTI. "We...
05:43 PM, Feb 24, 2012
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