Later, with a few amendments, it was renamed the Maharashtra Rangbhoomi Parinirikshan Mandal or the Maharashtra State Performance Scrutiny Board. What is worrying is how the censor board seems to be getting more teeth after Independence,” he says. “We do have a censor board, but the members are all playwrights and theatre actors and directors. Anasuya Vaidya of Delhi’s Akshara Theatre, who has made a film on theatre censorship, remembers a time when laws were stricter in Delhi and how her parents, Jalbala Vaidya and the late Gopal Sharman, always fought against them. Read: Government gearing up to clip censor board wingsApart from the ridiculousness of such censorship, there are also practical pitfalls of censorship.

Source: Hindustan Times October 01, 2016 16:19 UTC