While the rumours doing the rounds suggest that the Union Information & Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry might sack Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani for the awkwardness that his video praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi has caused the government, a source recently told CNN IBN that there are no plans to remove him.
Pahlaj drew flak after he decided to edit kissing scenes from ‘Spectre' without watching the film. He had said that being chairman of the Censor Board of Film Certification (CBFC) did not imply that he needed to watch every movie.
Not too long ago, the FTII Students' Association (FSA) also sought his resignation for his "plan" to make a film which showed them as "anti-national".
In a statement Nihalani had said that he had "a plan to make a film showing FTII students and alumni as anti-national". Irked by the statement, students had urged the Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore to seek Nihalani's resignation, as the chief of Central Board of Film.
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