Film depicting life of BJP legend Mookerjee to be released in April
Shyama Prasad's character is essayed by former film and television institute of India chairman Gajendra Chauhan.
Kolkata: The film 1946 Calcutta Killings in which Shyama Prasad Mookerjee’s character is cast in the lead role, will be released next month after the Central Board of Film Certification issued a U/A certificate, the director said.
The film, in Hindi and Bengali, will be released in 350 theatres across the country on April 14, the day before the Bengali new year, its director Milan Bhowmik said.
“The CBFC’s Film Certificate Appellate Tribunal (FCAT) has asked me to cut one comment about Jawaharlal Nehru uttered by the character of Muhammad Ali Jinnah on the ground that it showed the future Prime Minister of the country in poor light and I agreed,” Mr Bhowmik said. The makers of the film also put a disclaimer stating that the film was aimed at educating the youth about dangers of communal violence as asked by the CBFC tribunal, he said. The film will show Shyama Prasad as a great visionary and architect of Bengal, a leader of all communities and not a baiter of any community, Mr Bhowmik said.
The film, set in Kolkata of 1946, featured historical characters such as Nehru, Jinnah, the British-ruled Bengal’s last Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Syama Prasad, the founder of the then Bharatiya Jana Sang
Shyama Prasad’s character is essayed by former film and television institute of india chairman Gajendra Chauhan. Mr Bhowmik said he had appealed to the FCAT in early 2017. after the CBFC’s Kolkata and Mumbai offices refused to grant a certificate to the film for derogatory comments about political figures of the time.