kolkata filmmaker soumitra dastidar has decided to upload firebird his uncensored documentary on maoism on a videosharing site as a mark of protest against the central board of film certifications cbfc arbitrary method of functioning that is gagging voicesdastidar who has been filming the maoist movement for 17 years will upload the movie in parts starting wednesday i have had quite a few runins with cbfc but things are going overboard now i was appalled to see the way cbfc decided to mute the word radha from a song at this rate we will soon be asked to ration our speech if words like radha are censored its death for dialoguewriters they are being held at ransom said dastidar adding he was disgusted by the fascist move dastidar who has shot his movie in bastar palamou and border areas of odisa said he was sure his movie would never get a certification the way cbfc members are interpreting guidelines if they are reacting to the word radha this way there is no way theyll clear my content thats why i have decided to release it online it is my way of telling the board that there is no point curbing an artists freedom of expression he saidstills from fire birdlinguist pabitra sarkar felt this was a very valid way of protest i have read about how the word radha was snipped from this film have they forgotten the song bol radha bol sangam hoga ki nahi cbfcs decision is a result of sheer stupidity they are only trying to gag opinion sarkar said director bedabrata pain who had produced amu in 2005 that had faced the cbfcs axe is also happy with dastidars method of proteststills from fire birdthat a government board standing above citizens should decide permissibility of artistic content is distasteful anachronistic and in direct violation of the right to conscience and has no place in modern democratic polity he saiddirector arindam sil said such casualties will happen if a cinemaliterate person doesnt helm cbfc