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war and peace on dd!, next sunday!!!
savad


Anand Patwardhan's* * *War and Peace** *
*on DD National on Sunday morning 10.30, 15th October**

*
It never rains, it pours! Fast on the heels of *Father, Son and Holy
War*which Doordarshan (DD) telecast last Sunday morning, DD National
is set to
telecast Anand's anti-nuclear documentary *War and Peace *on *Sunday,
15th*October at
* 10.30 AM*

While *Father, Son and Holy War *took 11 years in court, *War and Peace *has
had its own share of legal and extra legal battles.

*A chronology of events

*
1. * *In February 2002 "War and Peace" a 163 minute anti-nuclear documentary
won the Best Film/Video award at the Mumbai International Film Festival.

2. A few months later the Central Board of Film Certification under the
obvious influence of the ruling BJP, refused to grant the film a certificate
unless 21 cuts were made.

3. After a long appeals procedure, the matter finally went to court. In
April 2003 the Bombay High Court ruled that the film be granted a "U"
certificate without a single cut.

4. Ironically, in 2004, the same film won a National award for the Best
Non-feature film. It was then submitted for telecast on Doordarshan. On five
previous occasions the courts have ordered Doordarshan to show Anand's
national award winning films.

5. The heads of Doordarshan and Prasar Bharati agreed to telecast if certain
sequences were removed from the film. Anand refused and a long battle of
attrition followed.

6. With Anand threatening to return his National award and go to court once
again, DD agreed in writing to telecast the film but attempted to set the
time slot at 11.30 PM on a Sunday night. Anand countered that as his film
was long and would end only after 2.15 AM, this would constitute "censorship
by sleep".

7. Finally in November 2005 DD agreed in writing to telecast the entire film
at 10.30 PM on two successive Sundays. *Almost a year then passed* with DD
refusing to set the actual dates of telecast.

8. In April 2004 DD dropped a bombshell by going back on its commitment to
telecast the entire film and formally asking for cuts. Anand refused this
and the matter went into limbo.

9. On August 25 the Supreme Court passed a landmark judgement criticizing DD
and Prasar Bharati for forcing Anand to go to court for the telecast of each
of his National Award winning films and ordering the telecast of the
uncut *Father, Son and Holy War
*.

10. On 8th of October DD complied with the order. This coming Sunday they
will go a step further and show *War and Peace*, for once without being
forced to do so by court.


*Simantini Dhuru * (09820528030), *Shashi Mehta* (09819188806)
Contact: *Anand Patwardhan* (09819882244)
anandpat@...<http://Compose?To=anandpat@vsnl.com>,
www.patwardhan.com


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