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Scrapping of FCAT: Film industry gets another blow amid Covid-19 pandemic

The five-member statutory body set up in 1983 has for 37 years been the voice of reason that read badly worded CBFC orders and tried to create a middle ground where filmmakers and babus could meet

Bandit Queen
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It is the FCAT that created the ground for the release of films like Bandit Queen (1994, pictured) and Udta Punjab (2016)

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar Mumbai
The walls are closing in.

If you are a filmmaker who doesn’t agree with the changes or cuts the Central Board of Film Certification's (CBFC) examining body demanded, you could always go to the revising committee. And if the revising committee didn’t give you any joy, there was always the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT). The five-member statutory body set up in 1983 has for 37 years been the voice of reason that read badly worded CBFC orders and tried to create a middle ground where filmmakers and babus could meet. You could write your own petition and defend your