The Danish Girl-Tom Hooper’s highly-acclaimed film was never meant for Indian audience. CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani says, "We certified the film for ‘Adults’ with no cuts for a theatrical release. As per rules, there is no separate certification for television broadcast. However, since we wouldn’t want the distributor to miss out on some added revenue we agreed out of good faith to view the film on Thursday evening for possible re-certification. But even before we could view the film they had announced their telecast of The Danish Girl for March 26. How can they announce the telecast before censor certification? It’s completely illegal!"
On Thursday evening, the review session will be held, "We postponed the screening of another film and scheduled The Danish Girl after it was submitted to us with voluntary modification by the producers of the content, so that the ‘A’ certification could be possibly converted to ‘UA’ or ‘U’ for telecast.However when we viewed their modified version we found it unsuitable for telecast and refused a revised certification. That should’ve been the end of that."
Nihalani also said, "When we cut anything at the censor board we are accused of curbing freedom. But when a producer wants to earn some extra revenue he voluntarily makes cuts and comes to us. We had not cut a single shot in The Danish Girl . The producers made the cuts and came to us. What happened to freedom of expression?"
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