Bengali actress Bidita Bag’s upcoming movie “Babumoshai Bandookbaaz“, which is an action thriller. The movie is directed by Kushan Nandy and produced by Kiran Shyam Shroff and Ashmith Kunder. The movie features Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Bidita Bag in the lead roles.
Recently, in an interview, Bidita Bag said that if everyone makes movies like the devotional drama “Jai Santoshi Maa”, there won’t be any entertainment factor left. She said, “Film-making is a very serious business because in each film there are about 80 to 100 people involved and they run their houses through it. So, if we start making films like ‘Jai Santoshi Maa’, then there will be no entertainment factor left in the film, and how many people will go to watch the film.”
Her upcoming movie titled “Babumoshai Bandookbaaz” opposite Nawazuddin Siddiqui has run into trouble with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), which has raised objections to the cuss words and some scenes in the film. The censor board has been given 48 cuts in the movie despite getting an ‘A’ certificate and the actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui says that the abuses in the movie are justified to make the characters look authentic.
On this actress says that The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is behaving like my grandparents. She said, “My grandparents always used to restrict me in terms of my food, clothing and watching preferences, so I feel censor board is acting in the same manner. Today, in our country, 70 per cent of our population is an adult, but still, they are told what to watch and what they shouldn’t.” She added, “Today, the internet market has grown so big and we have no control over content of internet… If you see films of the 1980s and 1990s, there were many rape scenes in it and they had no issues showing rape scenes, but they have problem with lovemaking scenes. So, I feel censor board shouldn’t control films like grandparents. They should just certify the film and shouldn’t decide what adults should see and what they shouldn’t because we live in democratic country.”
While on this Nawazuddin said that the abusive words are justified as they add a local flavour to the character. Nawazuddin said, “Conditions like these will turn us into mechanical actors. A character will always use the language of the region where he belongs. It makes the character authentic. By using such means, we can add depth to a character — like adding a local flavour. If we stop making films like these, then we will have no choice but to make the same clean films like the olden days.” He added, “As an actor, I would say as much as a film is local, it will become global. If they are not going to let us make films properly, then the outcome on the international platform will be zero.”