‘No idea when we will get censor certificate’

National Award-winning director Ashvin Kumar, who received an Oscar nomination for the short film Little Terrorist, is still struggling to get U/A certificate for his next movie, No Fathers In Kashmir.

“After an inordinate delay of nearly 90 days and no clarity on what the CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification) was finding objectionable or why it took them so long to watch the film in the first place, finally, when CBFC came up with a list of cuts, we objected as the cuts proposed were based neither on reality nor on law,” Kumar said.

“The A-certificate violates the fundamental rights of our core audience of youth, denying them a chance to know what is happening in their country, in their own name. It denies the possibility of dialogue between the youth of Kashmir and that of the rest of India. It is only through dialogue that any peaceful solution can be found. And it is only through telling the truth that a dialogue is possible in the first place, he said. —IANS