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Anubhav Sinha, whose recent web series IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack found itself in a row as a section of the audience accused the Netflix show of deliberately fudging the religious identity of the five terrorists who hijacked an Indian Airlines flight in 1999, has faced similar disagreements earlier as well. At the time of the release of his films Bheed (2023), Mulk (2018), and Article 15 (2019), the certification process was long and arduous. Most of his movies had to undergo certain changes and long discussions to get a clearance certificate.
Talking about the same ahead of IC 814 release, in an exclusive conversation with indianexpress.com, the filmmaker addressed the role of CBFC and how it impacts the creative process, “If it is a Utopian question then everything should be made and released, but there is a law of the land and if the law of the land tells me if you don’t do this, you can’t release your film, I will have to follow the law of the land. Now, I can’t have cerebral utopian conversation about it. CBFC is the law of the land. It tells me, ‘Anubhav, if you want to release your film, you have to delete this,’ I have to delete this. As simple as that.”
When asked if the interference of the censor board compromised the creativity of a project, the Thappad filmmaker said, “It is a compromise with the creativity of a film, it’s not what if. It is. But, it is the law of the land.”
In the same interview, the filmmaker also spoke about his films Bheed, and Anek tanking at the box office, despite opening to rave reviews. When asked how it feels, he told the indianexpress.com, “It breaks your heart, it breaks your backbone. You lose confidence. You almost get encouraged not to make a film again. But then something else convinces you enough to do it again and then you look back and say, ‘No, it’s not a big deal, it’s okay.’”
He added, “I had three back-to-back hits and then I had two films that didn’t work and those were also strange times and I was making a dark film on Corona tragedy, and in black-and-white, it didn’t work. It’s okay. As long as you are not ashamed of your film, as long as people who participated with you in that film are not ashamed, you take it in a stride. When you read or write history, you turn a page, and you have gone past a decade in the history of filmmaking, so don’t take yourself that seriously.”
Currently, his Netflix series IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack was asked to add a disclaimer after a row over the hijackers being called by their aliases, including Bhola and Shankar, while their names were Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Sayed, Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Mistri Zahoor Ibrahim, and Shakir.
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