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October 1946
lopment they must be treated within the careful limits of good taste.
34. All stories, whether based on mythological, historical or social subjects, shall be primarily approved by the Censor Board charging nominal fees prior to its being taken up for production. Such stories shall be in script form containing action sequences, dialogue and songs.
All these suggestions for framing the Film Production Code of Free India can be enforced only through a well-organized censor department.
To have an efficient censor department it is necessary to have:
(1) An efficient all-time secretary controlling four censor inspectors knowing Hindustani perfectly.
(2) A script examination department employing at least six script examiners knowing Hindustani and Urdu perfectly. Out of these six examiners, at least four should be scholars of history, economics and sociology.
(o) The Censor Board should be composed of at least fifteen members of the public, men and women, persons representing different social sciences and having a high standard of education. The president of the Board should be an official of high executive status and no judicial appeal should lie against the final decision of the Board. No representative of the vested interests of the film industry should be permitted to work on the Board.
(4) The Censoring fees should be raised to Rs. 1000 per picture of 11,000 feet or Rs. 100 per reel
Mrs. Amla Shanker makes a splendid team with Uday Shanker in "Kalpana'' our latest screen phantasy.
of a documentary film or newsreel. Script examination fees should be Rs. 250 per certified script and Rs. 100 per uncertified script.
(5) Three distinct censorship certificates as follows:
(a) Suitable for children under 18 (b) suitable for adults over 18 (c) suitable for universal exhibition, should be issued classifying the pictures according to their contents.
(6) Exhibitors not observing the restrictions imposed by the different censor certificates should be either heavily fined or jailed or both according to the gravity of the offence. In extreme cases their theatre licenses should be cancelled.
We have given these suggestions with an idea to help our overworked popular ministers to formulate a new Cinematograph Act in so far as it may relate to the production side of the film business. The censor rules and the relevant parts of the Production Code must also apply to all foreign pictures screened in India. There is a lot of trash in the present-day foreign film which provides dangerous mental food to the new generation of Free Indians.
In conclusion we hope that our popular ministers will realize the importance and the urgency of overhauling our film industry completely to harness it for a greater national destiny.
The present irresponsible personnel is using the potentialities of the film only to give us a nation of rotters. Let not posterity say that our popular ministers conspired with these social criminals to perpetuate a rotten industry.
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