Nehru film director threatens to commit suicide in letter to CBFC

KOLKATA: Problems at the Central Board of Film Certification refuse to die even as a director threatened to

commit suicide

if his certification problems are not sorted out within the next seven days.

On Wednesday,

director Milan Bhowmik

sent a letter (a copy of which is with TOI) to the regional officer of CBFC to immediately resolve the prolonged certification row over his ‘1946 Calcutta Killings’ starring Gajendra Chauhan as Shyamaprasad Mukherjee.

The director of the film, which allegedly portrays Jawaharlal Nehru in a negative light, had approached the Film Certificate Appellate Tribunal (FCAT) in May this year.

The FCAT had asked him to revisit the entire film and resubmit it to CBFC. Justice Manmohan Sarin, chairperson of FCAT, had instructed CBFC to decide on the film’s fate within 15 days of submission of the revised movie.

“I have not heard anything about the status of my film from CBFC and I am on the brink of an economic disaster. My financers are chasing me. The problem has ruined my family life,” Bhowmik said. In a shocking move, he shot off an email to the regional officer of CBFC saying: “I have no option but to commit suicide and the full responsibility will go to CBFC for its negligence.”

The letter has been marked to the chairman of CBFC, FCAT, regional officer of CBFC Mumbai and chairman of the producers’ section of Eastern India Motion Pictures Association. CBFC sources, however, said the letter hasn’t reached the office.