The Regional Board of Film Certification has been doing extra work these days and the CBFC members have watched not only more than 70 films in the month of December, but is watching nearly eight films per day in the last few days sources said.

The month of December is always hectic for the CBFC as many films will be in the queue to get censored with in the 31st of December. Likewise, this year also is very much hectic for the members of CBFC.

Karnataka Regional censor officer Smt Natasha D'souza and members have watched 70 films in the month of December, but still their work is not finished. From the last few days the members are watching nearly eight films in a single day which has made their work very hectic.

There is big trouble for Kannada films. It seems the Censor board in Bengaluru has stopped working now. After the recent controversy over Kiragurina Gayyaligalu that involved the CBFC, it looks like the censor board has stopped doing the censor for new films.

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Sources told Chitraloka that the head office in Mumbai has sent an instruction to the regional censor office not the accept any applications for censor certificate till the case of Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu is solved. 

Another source said normally during the month of December and March lot of movies will come for censor certificate.

Chitraloka enquired and came to know that yesterday and today there was no films screened for censor. Usually censor members watch one or two films a day, apart from non feature films, advertisements, trailers, promos etc.

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B Suresha's 'Devara Nadalli' has been censored with an 'U/A' certificate on Wednesday evening. The Revising Committee has given a 'U/A' certificate along with 7 cuts. Earlier, 'Devara Nadalli' had appeared before the Regional Board of Film Certification and the RBFC had given a 'U/A' certificate along with one cut. But B Suresha who was not prepared for the cuts rejected it and applied for the Revising Committee.

Accordingly, the RC chairman Arundhati Nag and the members of the committee saw the film on Wednesday evening and gave the film a 'U/A' certificate along with 7 cuts.

To screen Kannada movie in Europe is a big challenge. It’s an expensive market to explore. Considering the smaller market for Kannada movies, we cannot re-censor the movie. If we re-censor the movie, it will cost 2-3 euros per minute. It will cost around 800 Euros.

Once you get the classification, you need to follow the rules of admission as per rating. This will affect the Kannada audiences with kids to watch the movie (Most of the movies will be rated PG-12 or PG-15). Another alternative is that, we can screen the movie as part of community event (promoting Kannada culture).For more wider release, re-censoring is a must.

GBSM is the first Kannada movie that was censored in Germany. It will help in expanding the market and allows non-Kannadigas to attend the screening.  

Many of the Bollywood movies are censored with British Board of Film Classification. The advantage of this is that, it’s valid for screening in most of the foreign countries. As of now, No Kannada movies are censored with British Board of Film Classification.

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(to be continued)

(Article by Atlanta Nagendra)

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