Apurva Asrani resigns from IFFI jury member post
November 15, 2017 09:11
IFFI jury member Apurva Asrani has resigned from his post, a day after Sujoy Ghosh quit as head of the jury.
Ghosh, a popular filmmaker, resigned as head of the jury of IFFI's Indian Panorama section, following the controversy over the removal of two films from the final selection.
Overruling the recommendation of the 13-member jury, the information and broadcasting ministry pulled out Malayalam movie S Durga and Marathi film Nude from the 48th edition of the film festival, to be held in Goa from November 20 to 28.
Several jury members expressed their displeasure over the ministry's move to drop the films from the list they submitted. It was an unprecedented move, a jury member said on the condition of anonymity.
S Durga, which was earlier titled Sexy Durga, is a road movie that follows the horrifying experience of two hitchhikers, a man and a woman, at the hands of two men. It won the Hivos Tiger Award in the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017.
Nude depicts the struggle of a woman secretly working as a nude model in Mumbai.
S Durga director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan said he would approach the court after this "clever move" by the ministry. "They are supposed to publish the list two-three weeks before the festival begins but they delayed it on purpose," he said.
Nude director Ravi Jadhav was equally upset. "Give me some reason at least. It was selected as the opening film. It was a big honour. I am really disappointed and shocked to hear that it has been dropped," he said.
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