India's ban on the BBC gang-rape documentary will "not last very long" as the country's courts"are not puppets" of the government and civilised values will return, the British filmmaker behind the controversial film has said.   

"My prediction is that the ban will not last very long a tall because the courts of India are not puppets of the government," Leslee Udwin, director of  'Storyville: India'sdaughter' told PTI in an interview in New York.  

"India is a democracy, it is actually a civilised nation even though the current ban would suggest otherwise -- that the most important pillar of democracy, which is free speech,has been stamped upon in this ban. It (the ban) is temporary. It's not going to last. Civilised values will return, the ban will be lifted and then I hope when all of this hysteria dies down, they will focus on saving the women of the world rather than hiding their particular shame," she said.