Ye toh hona hi tha...” sings Rakhi Sawant, who is celebrating the lifting of the ban by the Censor Board on her song Bhoot which had the word ‘kamini’ in it. Ask her if she was sure about winning the battle against the Censor Board (CB) and she says confidently, “I had no second thoughts about my win. I knew that the CB will have to lift the ban and accept their fault. I was confident about my research work.”
Research work? “Yes, I gave the Censor Board a list of 200 movies which had abusive words being used against women. Various words which are far more worse than ‘kamini’ have been passed by the CB, then why raise a finger on my album alone? Abusive language has been a part of our society and in movies it is now a part of the creative sphere. Creativity is all about experimentation, in any sense. It is high time that the outdated minds in our CB accept this fact and stay mum on such issues henceforth.”
Rakhi, who has been socially quite active otherwise, completely denies that such a social responsibility of not-using foul language exists anymore in the society. “Our society wants to hear abusive language and see short clothes. Ab main saree pehen ke album mein aaungi toh album flop ho jayegi. Reason? Social responsibility.” Point taken, lady! But will she do anything in the name of ‘social responsibility? “No way! I will never go nude even if that is the trend in the industry. There is a limit to everything,” she stresses.
And though Rakhi has won one this battle, she is ready to fight another. Yes, you read it right! The lady who is all set to participate in a dance reality show soon is all set to take revenge on Aamir Ali and Sanjeeda Sheikh, against whom she once lost the dance battle in a reality show. “I could not do much at that point as I was in a shocking state but now that I have an opportunity, I will make the most of it- whether with my dance or with my words. I don’t believe in leaving anything pending.”
This is not the first time
This is not the first time when that the CB has has to retract on their objections... Here are some of the bans by the CB that were later revoked...
In 2002, the film War And Peace, depicting scenes of nuclear testing and the 11 September atrocities, by Anand Patwardhan, was asked to make 21 cuts before it was allowed to have the certificate for release. Patwardhan objected, saying, “The cuts that they asked for are so ridiculous that they won’t hold up in court,” and “But if these cuts do make it, it will be the end of freedom of expression in the Indian media.” The court decreed the cuts unconstitutional and the film was shown uncut.
In 2004, the documentary Final Solution, which looks at religious rioting between Hindus and Muslims, was banned. The film follows 2002 clashes in the western state of Gujarat, which left more than 1,000 people dead. The CB justified the ban, saying it was “highly provocative and may trigger off unrest and communal violence.” The ban was lifted in Oct ’04 after a sustained campaign.
The promos of Ishqiya ran into heavy weather with the CB because it had a line that went ‘tumhara ishq ishq aur hamara ishq sex?’. However, film went ahead without cuts and snips.
Recently, the Salman Khan-Ajay Devgn-Asin starrer London Dreams had run into a trouble with the CB for its promos which showed Salman chanting the Hanuman Chalisa during a rock concert. The promos were immediately pulled down by the censor jury. However, it was only when the producer-director appealed to the court that the promos were cleared.
Sanjay Gupta’s English film, The Great Indian Butterfly, has run into CB problems over certain expletives. In one of the scenes, Sandhya Mridul tells her husband Aamir Bashir that her mother had called and she’d told her that they had stopped having sex. The censors want the word ‘sex’ beeped out. However, Sanjay is in no mood to beep the S-word as according to him the censor has passed a whole movie not only with the title Love Sex Aur Dhoka but also various dialogues in it.
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