Movie Banned In India Because It Can “Ignite Unnatural Passions”
Indian govt. has once again banned a movie and this time, it’s Raj-Amit Kumar’s Unfreedom. CBFC has put a ban on it saying the movie seemingly can “ignite unnatural passions” amongst Indian populace as well as bring about communal riots.
The director talks about the movie, “Two stories are juxtaposed and the film challenges the idea of religious fundamentalism and questions its connection with homosexuality which is a biting reality of India.”
Unfreedom’ faced rejection by Revising Committee as well as Examining Committee plus Film Certification Appellate Tribunal too negated his plea. As per Raj-Amit, committee members stated provoking Hindu-Muslim riots as the reason of rejection in addition to the ignition of unnatural passions. The maker of the movie is appalled and would soon make a plea in High Court.
In the meantime, the ones who are broad-minded enough not to object a lesbian relationship and really craving to know what are the elements that has categorized this movie in the list of banned ones must take a look at its trailer. UNFREEDOM is an urgent contemporary thriller about a society torn apart by political, religious, and sexual turmoil. Shifting between New York and New Delhi, the film juxtaposes two powerful and unflinching stories about religious fundamentalism and intolerance, one of which follows a Muslim terrorist attempting to silence a liberal Muslim scholar, while the other is about a young woman who defies her devout father and escapes an arranged marriage because she is secretly embroiled in a taboo lesbian romance. In this searing portrait of the polarized world we live in, all four characters go to their absolute limit—and beyond—in their struggle to defend their deeply-held and conflicting viewpoints on freedom, faith, family and love.
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