Profound
actor
cum
scriptwriter
Murali
Gopy
lashes
out
after
his
new
movie
Vedivazhipadu
gets
banned
by
the
censor
board.
He
posted
on
his
Facebook
page:
"Censor
Board,
with
the
kind
of
guidelines
that
it
has
set
for
itself,
is
State-sponsored
creative
terrorism.
It
is
not
only
against
democratic
values
but
also
against
all
ethical
and
logical
aspects
of
art
and
entertainment.
When
a
nation
and
its
people
lose
the
ability
to
laugh
at
themselves
and
criticise
themselves,
that
is
the
first
sign
of
impending
brain
death.
"VEDIVAZHIPAADU" IS
AN
INNOCENTLY
ENTERTAINING
SATIRE...
the
official
banning
of
which
could
mean
the
intellectual
bankruptcy
of
our
system.
It
is
actually
such
draconian
steps
that
sow
all
the
wrong
ideas
in
people's
hearts.
My
heart
goes
out
to
Shambhu
Purushothaman
and
the
entire
cast
and
crew
of
this
movie...
Hoping
that
the
authorities
would
claim
back
their
good
sense...,
I
bet
to
remain.
:-l."
He
also
posted
another
to
his
timeline
whch
stated
likewise
-
"Visuals
of
a
hapless
woman
getting
brutally
assaulted
at
an
ATM
vent
(the
criminal
is
still
at
large.)
gets
aired
on
prime
time
television.
A
six-year-old
is
gang-raped,
and
the
police
is
"searching".
Hidden
cam
footage
of
people
making
love,
forcing
themselves
on
others
etc
get
prime
time
space,
with
ads
thrown
in
between.
Reality
shows
of
various
hues
promote
and
propagate
blatant
obscenity,
without
any
benefit
of
thematic
purpose.
REALITY
HAS
NO
CENSOR
BOARD.
And
when
it
comes
to
cinema,
you
cannot
even
show
a
man
smoking
a
cigarette
in
his
residential
toilet
without
scribbling
a
statutory
warning
on
the
screen.
Am
attaching
this
screenshot
of
a
lip
lock
featuring
Himanshu
Rai
and
Devika
Rani
from
the
1933
movie
'Karma'.
British
India
had
no
problems
whatsoever
with
this.
And
we
dare
to
say
we
are
an
independent
nation.
ART
IS
REFLECTING.
IT
IS
A
MIRROR.
PULLING
A
SHEET
OVER
THE
MIRROR
DOES
NOT
MEAN
THAT
WE
ARE
THE
HANDSOMEST."