Don't return awards, fight for your cause: Shekhar Kapur
Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur feels the solution to the ongoing intolerance debate in the country does not lie in returning awards. The 69-year-old director said he fails to understand the issue of censorship and fought for three years and even went to the Supreme Court for his 1994 film "Bandit Queen".
"40 per cent of the audience can't eat and your biggest concern is a kissing scene in James Bond, which has been cut short? I believed in 'Bandit Queen'. I fought at the Supreme Court for three years. If you believe in your film, go ahead and fight for it and see how far you go," Kapur said on the sidelines of IFFI. The director also stressed that the voice of intellectuals should not be taken as the opinion of the whole nation.
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