S Durga gets CBFC nod without any cuts

Malayalam film S Durga, which was dropped from the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) last year, has been cleared by the revising committee of the censor board without any cuts.

The director of the film, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, on Wednesday said the movie is now eligible for public screenings, which had received a U/A certificate from the censor board.

Sasidharan says he cannot wait for the film to release and is happy with the decision.

“They did not find anything wrong with the film. It is clear now that all that happened was done on purpose,” Sasidharan said.

He also shared the new poster of the movie on Twitter, in which the title reads as, ‘S DURGA’.

The film courted controversy after it was dropped by IFFI’s Indian Panorama section at the last moment. The director moved the Kerala high court and received a favourable verdict. In light of the high court order, a screening was organised for the festival jury members who sought the intervention of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).

On the last day of the festival, the censor board ordered a re-examination of the film, thus derailing its chances to be screened at IFFI.

The bone of contention was the ‘white rectangular boxes’ that followed the letter ‘S’ in the revised title of the movie, which was initially named ‘Sexy Durga’.

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