At the Passion For Cinema blog, well-known theatre personality, Ramu Ramanathan talks about how censorship has been used by the government to stifle the growth of theatre.
This is the main reason, Maharashtra has witnessed a longish saga of “banned� plays: Keechak Wadh by K P Khadilkar, Sakharam Binder, Gidhade by Vijay Tendulkar, Mee Nathuram Boltoy by Pradeep Dalvi, Bedtime Story by Kiran Nagarkar, Yada Kadachit by Santosh Pawar, Avadhya by C T Khanolkar, Golpeetha by Suresh Chikhale. The list is endless. I’ve seen Khalsa College’s production of Elkunchwar’s Holi being banned because of the obscenity. Iqbal Khwaja being roughed up by goons from the saffron brigade outside Prithvi Theatre after his satirical take on Hindu gods in Shakespeare Ki Ramlila
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The Rational Fool
Dec 24th, 2006 at 10:19 pm | #
Here is a primer on censorship in India. Shame on this secular democracy that calls the man, who launched a satyagraha against the British censorship of criticism of the war, its father!