Several jury members expressed their displeasure over the ministry's move to drop the films from the list they submitted. It won the Hivos Tiger Award in the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017. Nude depicts the struggle of a woman secretly working as a nude model in Mumbai. S Durga director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan said he would approach the court after this "clever move" by the ministry. The ministry is protecting a film like Padmavati, and rejecting a film like Nude.

Source: India Today November 14, 2017 06:33 UTC