Fixed with chronic requests regarding the abolishment of the Bangladesh Film Censor Board from the movie fraternity over the years, the authorities established the ‘Bangladesh Film Certification Board’ on Sunday (22 September).
The Ministry of Knowledge and Broadcasting issued a gazette notification revealing the brand new 15-member certification board committee, by the repeat of the president.
The vital distinction between a censor board and certification board is that the censor primarily labored to approve movies for begin, for which they would well ask certain scenes be lower from the closing begin, and even reshot. Failing this, they would well block the begin of a movie.
A certification board alternatively would assess the work positioned before them and certify its begin for acceptable audiences – some movies may per chance well additionally very nicely be celebrated for many effective adult audiences, affecting the times at which cinemas may per chance well camouflage them, whereas others will most likely be celebrated for universal general begin, without a restrictions positioned on them at all.
The system is supposed to protect artistic integrity, with members of the board having no mumble over the closing divulge material.
Earlier on 15 September, the intervening time authorities reformed the censor board to be headed by the senior secretary/secretary of the Ministry of Knowledge and Broadcasting as the chairman, and the unusual vice chairman of the Bangladesh Film Censor Board as the member secretary.
The identical officials will soak up the posts at the newly launched certification board, and your whole board officials will now be moved as the officials of the certification board.
Actress-puppeteer and activist Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed, nicely-known filmmaker Khijir Hayat Khan, filmmaker-movie researcher and academician Zakir Hossain Raju, writer-screenwriter and filmmaker Tasmiah Afrin Mou, movie producer-writer-director Rafiqul Anowar Russell, nicely-known filmmaker and President of the Bangladesh Film Administrators’ Affiliation Kazi Hayat, movie producer Zahid Hossain, movie editor Iqbal Ehsanul Kabir, the Senior Secretary/Secretary of the Regulation and Justice Division, the Press Secretary from the Chief Advisor’s Inform of job, the Extra Secretary (Film) from the Ministry of Knowledge and Broadcasting, a representative from the Ministry of Home Affairs, and the Managing Director of the Bangladesh Film Trend Company may per chance be the brand new board members.
The abolishment of the censor board and institution of an acceptable certification board has been a protracted-standing ask of the nation’s filmmakers, artists and cinema professionals. Plenty of of the nation’s filmmakers bear suffered thru the choice of the board within the previous; such as Mostofa Sarwar Farooki who fought over the censorship of his movie ‘Saturday Afternoon’ over the years.
Following the ouster of the earlier regime by the pupil-led mass uprising, movie industry professionals made solid requests addressing the reformation of the earlier Censor Board and the institution of a brand new Certification Board.
Plenty of filmmakers, producers, and movie organizers voiced in opposition to the restructuring of the Censor Board on 15 September below the ‘Censorship of Movies Act’ of 1963. The new certification board has been formed primarily primarily based utterly on sub-allotment (1) of allotment 3 of the ‘Bangladesh Film Certification Act, 2023’.
