Prasad says no censor for docus

Faced with the prospect of 175 leading documentary filmmakers boycotting the Mumbai International Film Festival MIFF 2004, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said that there will no censorship of films.

As reported in The Indian Express, 175 documentary filmmakers had come together to campaign against censorship at MIFF 2004 for introducing a clause which requires Indian documentaries entering the festival to be censored. However, the foreign films entering the festival did not have to go through the censorship.

After giving notice to Films Division and the Ministry over a month ago, the campaign gathered steam forcing the Government to revise its rules.