As film-makers, we need to think of the multiple ways in which to combat it, including guerrilla distribution and other actions that render censorship redundant. — Photo: Special arrangementSeveral documentary filmmakers have stopped approaching the CBFC for a certificate, preferring instead to explore ‘alternative’ screening spaces. Censorship and the DocumentaryFor documentary film-makers, the situation is even more absurd even though their films do not ever get a theatrical release or mainstream DVD distribution. Udta Punjab has once again brought into focus our ongoing battles against the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and the very idea of censorship itself. Whither censorshipIt (censorship) is an anachronistic concept, which has no place in a modern-day democracy.

Source: The Hindu June 12, 2016 00:12 UTC