Two days after Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's S Durga and Ravi Jadhav's Nude were dropped from the line-up of the 48th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) by the Information and Broadcasting ministry, Sujoy Ghosh stepped down as the chief of the 13-member jury of the Indian Panorama section at the festival.
<img title="Sujoy Ghosh" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2017/nov/Sujoy-Ghosh-sixteen.jpg" alt="Sujoy Ghosh" /> Sujoy Ghosh
Though Sasidharan is horrified at the state of events, he is grateful that Ghosh took up for his Malayalam film. "I'm glad Sujoy took a stand for us. This is what we expect from filmmakers. It's brave of him considering most festival directors shirk away from taking responsibility."
<img title="Still from S... Durga" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2017/nov/Durga-sixteen.jpg" alt="Still from S... Durga" /> Still from S... Durga
Reeling under the shock of his film being unceremoniously dropped, the director said, "I'm told it's a government film festival but I don't see my movie as anti-government." Justifying their move, Vivek Agnihotri, chairman of IFFI preview committee, said, "They wanted a children's film to be at the centre of the festival. The jury's job is to select the films, out of which the Ministry chooses 20 of them. From what I checked, one of the films wasn't complete. The other film was not selected."
<img title="Sanal Kumar Sasidharan" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2017/nov/Sanal%20Kumar.jpg" alt="Sanal Kumar Sasidharan" /> Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
When asked about Ghosh stepping down from his post, Agnihotri added, "That's his call. But a lot of the jury members are in favour of our decision."

S Durga director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan lauds filmmaker's move of resigning from IFFI jury after I and B Ministry drops two films from line-up

S Durga director lauds Sujoy Ghosh's move of resigning from IFFI jury

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