The Kerala High Court has declined to grant interim relief to the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy over seven documentaries withheld from its documentary festival, observing that, prima facie, there is no arbitrariness or unreasonableness in withholding seven of 346 films, and has listed the case for November 13.
Hearing a PIL objecting to the use of the ‘Shoorveer’ song, composed as a tribute to Maharana Pratap, over gangster scenes in Mirzapur: The Movie, the Delhi High Court asked the CBFC to decide within a week on the producer’s own proposal to replace the song with background music. The Court declined to rule on the merits, observing the issue was for the competent authority, but remarked prima facie that the usage was not in good taste.
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking the removal of the song “Shoorveer” from the climax of “Mirzapur: The Movie,” the petitioner contending that a track originally composed as a tribute to Maharana Pratap has been used over gangster scenes in a way that glorifies criminals and hurts public […]
