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Sudhir Mishra: People asked, how has film passed the censor?
Updated On: 06 May, 2023 07:28 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Asserting that Afwaah is not about love jihad, director says film that explores provocative theme of rumour-mongering was cleared by CBFC without major cuts
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Pednekar and Siddiqui front the movie
On Friday, Sudhir Mishra’s Afwaah and Sudipto Sen’s The Kerala Story released alongside one another, two stories that are ideologically poles apart. As we get on a call with Mishra, it hasn’t escaped his notice that his movie, which revolves around rumour-mongering, has failed to make it to prime-time news the way the other release has. The filmmaker says, “Times are strange. Eventually, the idea is that the film reaches out to people. It’s meant for conversation. I usually don’t give a damn about how people react, but with this one, I do.”
With Mishra, you can be assured of strong political movies with urgent themes at their centre. The Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Bhumi Pednekar-starrer appears to have been crafted to serve a specific purpose — to provoke powerful forces. “My intention is not to insult anyone. Afwaah is exactly the film I wanted to make. As for [it being] provocative, when I came out of the screening in Delhi, everyone asked the same question: ‘How has the film passed the censor?’ But it did, without its core compromised or major cuts made. We are probably wrong. We are living in a freer society than we think. The CBFC is autonomous.”
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