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Shahid
शाहिद
2013 · Film · 129 min
Directed by Hansal Mehta
A story based on real-life human-rights and criminal lawyer, Shahid Azmi, who was slain while defending the wrongly accused by the law in terrorist activities.
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I hate consuming movies on Amazon Prime Video in India. Their self-censorship is worse than the Censor board.
Just one of my recent experiences - A well made movie "Shahid" - There's a scene where the two guys are in jail having a chat. An entire line just gets censored and Shahid's shocked reaction means the scene was important.
I then found the movie on Netflix. The line they censored was - "This country doesn't give a shit about it's minority". Wtf?! Are we that insecure that we need to Censor stuff like that.
That's just one example, it's almost impossible to watch Shahid and other similar movies on Amazon. Which is weird because they are on the Internet, they don't have a Censor body governing their content!
All better critical movies get a certification slap. The certification is a pure censorship instrument.
"Ram-leela" was pressured to change its title, to get an U/A rating eventually. A too modern interpretation of their sacred Hindu mythos. "Kaum de Heere" was too positive about the Indira Gandhi assassination. "Madras Cafe" got an U/A. About the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. "Shahid" got an A. A biopic on a human rights activist and advocate, with no violent scenes. "Dil Se" got an A. One of the classics of indian political movies.
All can be recommended.