Filmmaker and actor Nandita Das, actor Shahana Goswami and director Jeo Baby discussed censorship and OTT platforms in the discussion titled “The Female Gaze: Redefining Cinema on the Global Stage” at The Hindu Huddle 2025 moderated by The Hindu’s Shilajit Mitra. Films that are being made in India now face three kinds of censorship, said […]
Actors Nandita Das, Shahana Goswami, director Jeo Baby, in conversation with The Hindu’s Film Correspondent Shilajit Mitra | Photo Credit: K. Bhagya Prakash At The Hindu Huddle 2025, filmmakers Nandita Das, Jeo Baby, and actor Shahana Goswami come together for a compelling panel discussion moderated by The Hindu’s Shilajit Mitra, exploring how cinema is transformed […]
Films that are being made in India now face three kinds of censorship, said Nandita Das, filmmaker and actor, speaking at The Huddle by The Hindu. “One is [from] the official body; then many of us have to self-censor. Then there are some self-proclaimed custodians of culture,” she said, adding that free speech is fundamental […]
A still from ‘Santosh’ | Photo Credit: Vertigo Films The internationally acclaimed Santosh has been denied certification for theatrical release in India after the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) objected to its portrayal of police brutality, caste discrimination, and misogyny, according to reports from The Guardian. Written and directed by British-Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri, […]
A still from ‘Santosh’ | Photo Credit: Vertigo Films In Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, a young Dalit girl has been murdered and her body is found floating in a village well. But it’s the apathy, the procedural inertia, and the sneering shrugs and sideways glances that come after, that she somehow makes feel more criminal, more […]
