The producer of the recently released Kannada movie Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu on Monday moved the High Court of Karnataka seeking guidelines and standard method of certification for television serials, advertisement commercials and promotions on the lines of the certification for movies under the Cinematograph Act, 1952.
Justice S. Abdul Nazeer, before whom the petition filed by Megha Movies through its proprietor M.S. Ravindra, came up for hearing, has ordered issue of notice to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the Regional Director, Censor Board, Bengaluru.
It was pointed out in the petition that the Censor Board, which had granted permission for the trailer of Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu without any cuts for its advertisement and promotion, had ordered some cuts when it granted final certification.
However, such an “arbitrary” step of ordering cuts in some sense and dialogues had affected the image of the movie as viewers are now complaining that what was shown in the promos and advertisement was missing in the final motive.
The words, which were cut on the Board’s direction, were part of the novel “Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu,” written by Poornachandra Tejaswi, son of Jnanpith awardee Kuvempu, the petitioner said while pointing out that this novel has been prescribed as a textbook in Karnataka.
‘Against guidelines’
It contended that the action of the Censor Board was not as per the guidelines and principles of the Cinematograph Act, which stipulates that the artistic expression and creative freedom are not unduly curbed, besides depriving the right of the public to watch the movie based on the trailer/advertisement.
It was complained in the petition that there are no processes of censor before serials, and advertisements or commercials — contents of which were some times worse than movies, and were telecast on various channels without any quality check or censorship.
The petitioner has sought a direction from the court for displaying the movie without cuts.
Wants direction
to screen Kannada film ‘Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu’
without cuts
