Will change the way films are censored: Pahlaj Nihalani

Mumbai, Jan 28: As the new chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification, producer Pahlaj Nihalani is adamant on cleaning up films and making censorship a quick clean and unquestionable exercise. "I am definitely going to change the way films are censored, so that once a film is given certificate there is no controversy or doubts about its credibility. There will accountability and no room for ambiguity in the censoring process," said Nihalani. The newly appointed chairperson also feels that the guidelines for censoring were not followed properly. Nihalani intends to implement a uniform code of conduct regarding verbal and visual violence in films. Lashing out at the trend in a certain kind of cinema of sanctioning a violent society that lives by gaalis (abuse) and gun, the new chairperson of the CBFC says: "There are lakhs and lakhs of jobless youngsters specially in the smaller towns. What are you telling them when you show your hero mouthing expletives and killing people?" Nihalani also feels strongly about the redundancy of violence in our films. He also gave examples of two of Amitabh Bachchan starrer classics to prove how effective insinuated violence can be. " 'Deewaar' and 'Trishul' were extremely violent films. But how much of the theme's violence was actually shown on screen? To show brutality we don't have to actually indulge in it," he said.