Outdated censor board rules set to change: Anupam Kher

VADODARA: The censor board rules are all set for a change. Film actor and former censor board chief Anupam Kher said that the rules are being revisited by the new government. “I had met minister of state for information and broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore some time back. He said that the censor board rule book is being changed and the old rules are being revisited,” Kher told TOI.
“The board rules were written in 1952. I hope the rules change for better soon,” Kher, who was in the city for his play ‘Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta Hain’, said.
When asked about Leela Samson’s resignation as censor board chief recently over clearance to the movie ‘Messenger of God’, Kher said that she was technically wrong. Kher, who was a censor board chief for a year in 2004, said that the entire episode was unnecessarily given political colour. “The film went to examining committee, review committee and then the tribunal, as is the procedure. It was cleared after that. There was no need to give political colour to the issue,” Kher told TOI.
When asked whether censor board should be an autonomous body, Kher said, “It would be best if the board becomes autonomous.”
Kher, whose wife Kiron Kher is BJP MP, was all praises for BJP’s chief ministerial candidate for Delhi, Kiran Bedi. “I am a fan of Bedi. She is very strong and able leader, and she will give good governance,” he said but refused to comment when asked about Arvind Kejriwal.