On Monday, jury chairperson Sujoy Ghosh stepped down after the Information and Broadcasting ministry pulled out Malayalam film S Durga and Ravi Jadhav’s Marathi film Nude. Challenging the exclusion of S Durga, Sasidharan petitioned the Kerala High Court, urging it to direct the festival organisers and the ministry to include and screen his film in the festival which opens November 20. Also read | Days after two films dropped from fest, jury chief Sujoy Ghosh resignsAsrani, who followed Ghosh in walking out of the festival jury, said: “I stand with the chairman of the jury. “I cannot remember the name of the NFDC representative who called me, but I was asked what I would choose as the opening film if S Durga was to be replaced. The 21 films on the final list are films that the jury selected even though two from our top 21 list have been dropped,” he said.

Source: Indian Express November 15, 2017 00:17 UTC