The Censor Board's clarification comes in the wake of raging debate about 'obscenity' in item numbers. ...
01:20 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Censor board chairperson Leela Samson welcomed the government's step of considering amendments to the Cinematograph Act. Leela Samson said, "If the government comes up with this, it is the best news I have heard in a long time. We have been defending ourselves in Chennai against what the attorney said in court defending the state government. I am delighted by Manish Tewari's announcement." ...
10:16 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Just a day after Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam' got the green signal from the Madras High Court to screen the film, the decision was overturned on Wednesday. Tamil Nadu Advocate General A Navaneetha Krishnan said the interim order was against public interest and that the censor board itself was flouting norms when clearing films. ...
07:46 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Filmmakers Mahesh Bhatt and Rituparno Ghosh strongly supported Haasan and said the hounding he is facing can only be termed as 'state terrorism'. ...
01:05 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Chennai: The High Court on Wednesday set aside an order of the Centre, allowing Leela Samson to withdraw her resignation and asking her to join duty as the director of Kalakshetra Foundation in Tiruvanmiyur. Once Leelas resignation was accepted, there was no provision in the Kalakshetra Foundation Act to permit withdrawal of the resignation, Justice S Nagamuthu pointed out. The judge was allowing a writ petition from Sai Sankar and...
02:00 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Chennai: Leela Samson was restrained from functioning as the director of Kalakshetra Foundation in Tiruvanmyur by the Madras High Court on Tuesday. Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar passed the interim order while entertaining a writ petition from a group of 16 Kalakshetra employees. Appointed in February 2005, Leela attained the age of 60 years in May 2011. Noting that it was the age of superannuation and that she had not resigned...
01:23 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Chairman of the SC/ST commission PL Punia got a pre-screening of Prakash Jhas "Aarakshan" and sought to play super censor, saying there were objectionable dialogues. But the Censor Board chief Leela Samson was categorical and the movie will be released without any further cuts. The film releases this Friday. Even as politicians battle to decide the content of the film, the Central board of film certification emboldened...
09:35 PM, Aug 10, 2011
New Delhi: The National Commission for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes has asked the Censor Board to defer the release of Prakash Jha's contentious film Aarakshan saying it will create communal disharmony. The NCSCST also said some dialogues and sequences in the movie are objectionable. The commission will be meeting later on Wednesday to decide on the fate of the film. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the commission is likely...
02:20 PM, Aug 10, 2011
New Delhi: Well-known Bharatnatyam dancer Leela Samson is expected to be the next chief of the censor board, an official of the ministry of information and broadcasting said. She will succeed yesteryears actress Sharmila Tagore. "The outgoing censor chief has requested that the new person should be appointed before her tenure ends (on March 31st)," said the official, adding that the announcement will be made soon. Samson juggles many role...
07:36 PM, Mar 28, 2011
