HYDERABAD: Telangana HC quashed Monday the censor certificate given to Ram Gopal Varma’s Telugu movie Vyooham, billed as a biopic on Andhra CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, following a TDP plea that the film defamed its leader N Chandrababu Naidu, reports
A single bench of Justice Surepalli Nanda directed Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to examine the issue afresh within three weeks.
TDP alleged the movie was made by Dasari Kiran Kumar of Ramadhutha Creations at the behest of its political rivals. Vyooham’s plot deals with the politics around former CM YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s sudden death in a chopper crash in 2009. The film-makers are considering an appeal before an HC division bench.
Justice Nanda said the action of the censors in allowing “the movie to be released was a patent illegality and filled with procedural impropriety”. She said the revising committee of CBFC, which granted certificate to the film, did not assign any reasons for overruling its own examining committee that refused to allow the release.
A single bench of Justice Surepalli Nanda directed Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to examine the issue afresh within three weeks.
TDP alleged the movie was made by Dasari Kiran Kumar of Ramadhutha Creations at the behest of its political rivals. Vyooham’s plot deals with the politics around former CM YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s sudden death in a chopper crash in 2009. The film-makers are considering an appeal before an HC division bench.
Justice Nanda said the action of the censors in allowing “the movie to be released was a patent illegality and filled with procedural impropriety”. She said the revising committee of CBFC, which granted certificate to the film, did not assign any reasons for overruling its own examining committee that refused to allow the release.
