Censor board denies certification to ’72 Hooren’ trailer

National Desk | Ashok Pandit, co-producer of the film “72 Hooren”, said that the censor board has refused to certify the trailer of the film which is slated to release on July 7. Directed by Sanjay Puran Singh, the film stars Pawan Malhotra and Aamir Bashir in the lead and is based on the consequences of violent extremism. At the same time, even after the refusal of the censor board, the makers did not back down and released it on digital platforms.
Ashoke Pandit, in a video message, appealed to Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur and Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) chairman Prasoon Joshi to remove those trying to “snatch away our freedom of creative expression” from the censor board. are doing. “We, the producers of the film ’72 Hooren’ are extremely shocked and upset as the Censor Board has denied us the certificate for our trailer today,” Pandit said in the one-and-a-half-minute video.
He said, “It is quite funny and sad that a film, which has won a National Award, a film which has won an award at IFFI (International Film Festival of India). Its scenes are the same as in the film at that time, only the trailer is new. While on one hand you have given the National Award to the film, on the other hand you are refusing to give certificate to the trailer of the film.” There was no immediate response from Joshi when contacted for his comment on the matter. “72 Hurren” was premiered under the Indian Panorama category of IFFI in Goa in 2019, where it received the ‘ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal Special Mention’. In 2021, Chauhan received the National Award for Best Direction for the film.