Oscar Nominated Director’s film based in Kashmir finds itself in a tug of war for Film Certification

A few weeks ago, news reports had surfaced where Ashvin Kumar, India’s youngest Oscar-nominated director of the short film Little Terrorist found himself in a place where no filmmaker wishes to be. Being a creative medium, films have had a long-standing scale of issues with the CBFC over the years. With increasing methods to curb a voice, CBFC has always made news in terms of its varied reasons to reject or give incorrect certification to several films. And Ashvin Kumar’s next, No Fathers In Kashmir is currently is such a lurk. The film has had its own history now with the CBFC since July when the film first applied for certification. A process which usually would take 60-68 days took over 100 days to even get a certificate. The CBFC tagged the film ‘A’ in October despite it following all the lawful guidelines crafted by the board. 

No Fathers in Kashmir is a love story of two innocent 16-year-olds who are met with the same fortune of having lost their fathers who have disappeared in Kashmir with no certainty of their return. Interestingly Ashvin has made two other short films earlier Inshallah Football and Inshallah Kashmir both of which were first banned by the film certification board and later went on to win a National Award for each. Now when the filmmakers for their latest, decided to question and request for a revision of the certificate to U/A, the matter was applied to the FCAT, the final decision-making body for film certification. Upon the investigation of the matter, the FCAT in its screening which was held on 11th December, demanded the CBFC revising committee to give the film a proper hearing, in a written order asked them to watch the movie again and give it its justified certification within 10 days, which was on 21st December. Since then the CBFC has already removed the order and asked for a further extension to give its order on the movie. 

This happens to be the worst nightmare for a filmmaker, who’s invested time and creativity apart from money in making a film, especially when it’s independent. The tug of war between these two film certification bodies has left the makers of No Fathers in Kashmir in a very mucky space with no certainty of a release for its film. The film stars the two kids Zara Webb, Shivam Rana in addition to having an impressive ensemble cast comprising of Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Soni Razdan and Anshuman Jha.    

Big Boss 12 - Kavita Kaushik roots for Karanvir for the win

Bigg boss fever is at its peak with the show having reached its final leg. It's the third year in a row where the commoners are pitted against celebrities making the finale interesting.

Amidst all the drama & fun tasks in the finale week on the show, social media is abuzz with loyal fans of the television's most controversial show rooting for their respective favorite players & making the race spicier & we can't tell who has bigger chances of taking away the trophy.

The Naagin actor, Karanvir Bohra, has time & again been labelled 'Mahan' ( generous on the show & for his inmates).  And we love this video of television actress who's known for her bold style playing the fiery police officer Chandramukhi Chautala as she has come out supporting Karanvir.  Kaushik in her video makes a comparison, as she says 'Mahan hona achhi baat hai kyunki Mera Bharat bhi Mahan hai'

Check out her video :-

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Looks like the industry is surely supporting Karanvir!  Shweta Tiwari, Divyanka Tripathi, Mouni Roy, Karan Patel, Arjun Bijlani, Puneesh, Srishty Rode, Simple Kaul etc all have already shown their support for the actor and are rooting for him to win!

Rohit Shetty spills the beans on The Kapil Sharma show

Sara Ali Khan, the stunning young actress is already making headlines with her acting talent and gorgeous looks. Her charming personality is winning hearts of the audience and movie goers are looking forward to her second movie, Simmba. Sara Ali Khan will be seen with Ranveer singh and Rohit Shetty on the premiere episode of  The Kapil Sharma Show which will air on 29th December at 9.30 PM. The most anticipated show promises to be laugh riot with the star cast of Simmba adding to the extra tadka of entertainment. Sara was very excited to be the part of The Kapil Sharma show. Sara being the youngest member on the show, Rohit and Ranveer kept pulling her leg and revealed lot of secrets on the show. When Kapil quizzed Sara on how she bagged the movie, Rohit revealed how Sara followed-up with him and insisted that he should take her in the movie. The way Rohit narrated the story left the audience and splits. 

A source from the set revealed, “Rohit narrated the entire incident of how Sara chased him through messages and thereafter approached Karan Johar. Later, Gattu (Abhishek Kapoor) also spoke to Rohit upon Sara’s insistence that Rohit should watch the rushes of Kedarnath. One day, Rohit decided to meet Sara and she went alone which was quite surprising for Rohit. Sara literally pleaded Rohit to take her in Simmba and Rohit decided upon Sara purely looking at her conviction. He didn’t even see the rushes of Kedarnath. Rohit also mentioned that Sara is in Simmba purely because of her hard work as ne never got a call from neither Saif nor Amrita to put in a word for Sara.”

Tune in to The Kapil Sharma Show starting 29th December at 9:30PM only on Sony Entertainment Television

Siddharth Kumar Tewary's Tantra Goes For A Slot Change

Siddharth Kumar Tewary's first outing in the supernatural thriller genre, Tantra, has already opened up to good reviews and tremendous feedback from the audience.  With a bumper star cast, lots of thrills and a plot which revolves around black magic, Tantra is all set now for a time slot change.  Our source informs us, "Tantra has opened up well on the 11 PM time slot but now that Bigg Boss is reaching its finale, there's an opening for an earlier time slot which fares better with the genre on hand.  Hence, the channel has decided to shift the show from 11 PM to 9:30 PM.  The story too is reaching one of its high points which will engage the new set of audience that joins in at the earlier time slot."

Samar’s dramatic griha- pravesh at Jaya’s maayke in Main Maayke Chali Jaungi Tum Dekhte Rahiyo

Sony Entertainment Television’s Main Maayke Chali Jaungi Tum Dekhte Rahiyo is gearing up for a lot of drama. The show protagonist Namish Taneja who plays Samar will do a griha- pravesh at his wife Jaya’s (Srishti Jain) maayke. This is for a first time on Indian Television that a groom will enter his wive’s house with proper traditions and rituals.

In the current track, the viewers will see that Jaya has returned to her maayka (maternal house) after a major fight with Samar. Jaya’s mother Satya Devi (Neelu Waghela) asks for a divorce from the Surana family. Samar tries his level best to win back Jaya, but all his efforts goes in vain. To get her wife back, Samar comes up with an idea of doing a grand griha-pravesh at Jaya’s maayke and teach Satya Devi a lesson. The viewers will see a grand griha-pravesh of Samar with band and bajaa, which comes as a shock for the whole Sharma family.

Namish Taneja aka Samar, “The viewers should now be ready for a lot of twists and turns in the track. A groom doing griha-pravesh at the bride’s house is something that the viewers might have not seen till now on Indian television. Now since Samar wants Jaya in his life, he is not leaving any stone unturned to impress her and win her back with his unconditional love. I am sure everyone is surely going to love this track and the small tussle between the Jamai and the Saasu maa.”

Tune into Main Maayke Chali Jaungi Tum Dekhte Rahiyo from Monday to Friday at 8.30 only on Sony Entertainment Television!