You go into a room and nobody even gets up to say hello or asks you to sit down. It’s even just the power politics of how they treat you. Then we applied to the revising committee, and there was another screening, and they called me in and said, “We’ve made a unanimous decision that we are not going to be certifying your film.” And that’s when I got sent that strange letter. At the first, they told me it was a really hard-hitting film, showing the reality of life in India, but they said they hadn’t come to a common decision. There were two screenings for the certification. There have been other films, such as Parched and Margarita With a Straw, that had been certified. You had been confident your film would get certification in India… India Blocks Theatrical Release of Feminist Drama 'Lipstick Under My Burkha'
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