The Hindu : CBFC chairman for updating guidelines

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Tuesday, Jun 25, 2002

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CBFC chairman for updating guidelines

By S.R. Ashok Kumar

Chennai June 24. The 103rd meeting of the members of the Central Board of Film Certification, in Bangalore recently, unanimously passed the annual report 2001.

Vijay Anand, chairman, who presided, said he had invited censorship guidelines followed by various countries to update and amend the existing rules and guidelines.

The Board issued 3294 certificates in 2001. Of this, 2560 were issued to celluloid films and 734 to video films. In the celluloid films category, 1013 certificates were issued to Indian feature films, 248 to foreign feature films, 1099 to Indian short films and 200 to foreign short films.

In the video films category, 97 certificates were issued to Indian feature films, 47 to foreign feature films, 402 to Indian short films, 187 to foreign short films and one to a film in other categories.

Of the 3294 certificates, 2277 were for the `U' category, 344 for the `UA' category, 671 for the `A' category and two for the `S' category.

The highest number of certificates were issued from the Mumbai office (1635), followed by Chennai (665) and Thiruvananthapuram (294). In the Indian languages, the first position was taken by Hindi (230) followed by Telugu (206) and Tamil (196). The total number of foreign feature films certified was 248.

The Censor Board had initially refused certification to 76 feature films (57 Indian and 19 foreign). Later, some of the films were passed by the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT) while some others were passed by the CBFC in their revised and re-revised versions. The Board deleted a total of 20305.82 metres of objectionable scenes/visuals from films submitted during 2001 for violation of various guidelines.

Last year, 128 cases of interpolations in films were detected in various places and reports had been sent to the Judicial Magistrate concerned for necessary action.

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