Dibakar Banerjee says ‘collective madness infected us in last 6-7 years’, opens up about blurring out nudity in LSD 2: ‘We’re all losing our minds’

Dibakar Banerjee also said that he was made to blur out an instance of nudity in his upcoming film LSD 2, because it is illegal by Indian law.

By: Entertainment Desk

New Delhi | April 13, 2024 06:45 PM IST

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Dibakar Banerjee is gearing up for the release of LSD 2.

Filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee, who is gearing up for the release of LSD 2, spoke about how the country and its culture has evolved in the years since he has been making movies. “A madness has set in across the last six or seven years,” he said in a new interview, where he also opened up about his interactions with the Central Board of Film Certification back in the day, and now, when he’s about the release the edgy LSD 2.

Appearing on the Honestly Saying Podcast, Dibakar explained, “We have all collectively lost our minds… A virus has infected us and is driving us crazy. We’re all going crazy; companies are going crazy, individuals are going crazy, countries are going crazy. I merely want to record this collective madness. It’s important to document this madness, because what happens next? Zombies. When people turn into zombies, it won’t matter what movies they’re watching and what they aren’t. They’ll watch whatever they’re told to watch.” Asked if he’s doing what he does because he wants to say ‘I told you so’ at some point, Dibakar replied, “Yes, I have that syndrome. I’m a hectoring professor and biblical prophet rolled into one.”

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When Dibakar saw how the CBFC has changed in the last decade, Dibakar said that he doesn’t remember much of his interactions with the certification body. About his most recent interactions, he said that he was told to remove certain swear words directed at mothers and sisters, and asked if they could be changed to target fathers. After thinking about it, the CBFC said that he should probably avoid family members altogether.

Dibakar continued, “They didn’t touch anything else in the film. The instance of nudity they can’t do anything about, because the Cinematograph Act forbids frontal nudity. We can’t show breasts, we can’t show breastfeeding, we can’t show genitalia, by law. The censor board can’t do anything about it. There’s a long process to get special exemption in certain cases, but we don’t even have the Tribunal anymore. It’s the CBFC and then the Supreme Court. So, they know it’s an adult film. They passed it relatively unscathed, only certain swear words have been removed. The nudity we’ve blurred.”

LSD 2 is a follow-up to Dibakar’s path-breaking original LSD – Love Sex Aur Dhoka, which was released in 2010. Dibakar’s last feature film was Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar. He directed a feature film titled Tees for Netflix in the interim, but the movie was removed from the streamer’s release schedule.

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