kolkata ever since the central board of film certification cbfc decided to keep recensorship of adult films on hold it sent shock waves across the entire film industry producers and directors in kolkata made a beeline for the cbfc office on friday to determine what their next course of action should be their own problems apart producers insist that the move will be a huge blow to private channels that screen foreign movies bengal film and television chamber of commerce bftcc now wants to draw the prime ministers attention to the cbfcrelated issues including recensorship and dubbing according to cbfc chief pahlaj nihalini certification rules are the same for both indian and foreign films so if any hollywood movie is censored as adult in india there cant be any recensorship for television this effectively means channels like hbo star movies zee studio star movies action warner brothers sony pix movies now romedy now and mgm can no longer get foreign adult movies recensored and screened in india producer rana sarkar bftccs general secretary said this will be the first issue of national interest that bftcc will take up a copy of their letter to the prime minister will be sent to finance minister arun jaitely we will also be writing to the west bengal chief minister seeking her intervention in this matter on the day toi came out with the report on recensorship srijit mukherjis rajkahini produced by venkatesh got an a certificate from cbfc what happens to producer venkatesh films if they cant recensor this film for television business plans for films that have been shot earlier keeping in mind the previous norms on recensorship are going haywire it is a dangerous move sarkar said director aniket chattopadhyay said my film room no103 got a theatrical release with an adult tag we were hoping to recensor it for television and recover the cost my next film tuski too will get an adult tag and face the same problems all cine producers must protest this move chattopadhyay also feared that this norm will promote piracy one of the founder members of bftcc satarupa sanyal agreed saying this move is only inviting corruption within cbfc malpractices will be encouraged to stop a film from getting an adult certificate we need to act immediately sources in cbfc say that on an average 400 foreign films are sanitized every year for indian television producer nishpal singh rane who also wants a rollback on this decision said cbfc is so strict that 60 of our action films get an adult tag most hollywood films are adult by indian standards this step will ensure that we dont get to watch good foreign films on television the revised laws for dubbing have also met with resistance new norms state that all dubbed films have to be censored within three years of censorship of original movies sanyal said bengali and marathi films will face the brunt it takes long for these movies to sell rights to other