Vidya Balan’s Yes for CBFC to get right to criticize!
Earlier, Pahlaj Nihalani was replaced as the CBFC Chief by Prasoon Joshi who is a celebrated lyricist and also Padma Shri recipient. Apart from that, the institution in itself underwent a revamp with many movie personalities like Vidya Balan and TS Nagabharana becoming part of the board.
Vidya Balan who was present at an event lately was questioned about the changes that has taken place ever since the change. Without revealing much details, the National Award-winning actor told that the board members recently had a meeting and she is happy that “all like-minded people are on the board.”
She further added that when she was approached for the role, she thought that if she rejected this she would perhaps lose an opportunity to criticise any decision taken by the board.
“I thought if I don’t say yes to this, I’d lose the right to criticise any decision ever taken by the CBFC. I thought I was ready to shoulder the responsibility. I don’t want to say anything about what our approach is going to be or what our decisions are going to be based on,” she told.
Filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj who was also present at the event told that he was happy and hopeful with this new change. “It feels good that Vidya is there in the committee, and a person who is a poet is heading CBFC. I hope he remains poetic in his procedures also. I am very hopeful. Prasoon is a friend. I really love his work,” Vishal revealed.
Gautami Tadimalla, Narendra Kohli, Naresh Chandra, Neil Herbert, Vivek Agnihotri, Ramesh Patange, Vani Tripathi, Jeevitha Rajasekhar and Mihir Bhuta are the other members in the board.
