IC 814 The Kandahar Hijack director Anubhav Sinha reacts to CBFC interference in his projects: ‘If you want to release your film…’

When asked if the interference of the censor board compromised the creativity of a project, the Thappad filmmaker said, “It is a compromise with the creativity of a film, it’s not what if. It is. But, it is the law of the land.”

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In the same interview, the filmmaker also spoke about his films Bheed, and Anek tanking at the box office, despite opening to rave reviews. When asked how it feels, he told the indianexpress.com, “It breaks your heart, it breaks your backbone. You lose confidence. You almost get encouraged not to make a film again. But then something else convinces you enough to do it again and then you look back and say, ‘No, it’s not a big deal, it’s okay.'”

He added, “I had three back-to-back hits and then I had two films that didn’t work and those were also strange times and I was making a dark film on Corona tragedy, and in black-and-white, it didn’t work. It’s okay. As long as you are not ashamed of your film, as long as people who participated with you in that film are not ashamed, you take it in a stride. When you read or write history, you turn a page, and you have gone past a decade in the history of filmmaking, so don’t take yourself that seriously.”

Currently, his Netflix series IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack was asked to add a disclaimer after a row over the hijackers being called by their aliases, including Bhola and Shankar, while their names were Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Sayed, Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Mistri Zahoor Ibrahim, and Shakir.