Kolkata: The Ministry of Defense has rejected the film script the next Onir feature inspired by the true story of the gay department who stopped because it could no longer be maintained for him to remain homosexual and be in the Indian army.
The sequel to the national award-winning film titled ‘I AM’, the film is scheduled to be partially shot in Kolkata starting in April.
LT-Colonel Sachin Ujjwal, in the wing of strategic communication of the army, sending an email to the director on Wednesday stating that “the script has not been removed by IHQ Mod (Army).
Hope you are lucky in all future efforts”.
In July last year, the Ministry of Defense had written to the film Certification Council (CBFC) and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Electronics and Information Technology to advise the production house to get the NOC from it before telecast from any film, documentaries or web series on The army was due to the depiction of army personnel and military uniforms in “insulting ways”.
“My protagonist is a Jawan.
His love is still unrequited until he leaves the troops and meet his lover in Kolkata,” he said.
The filmmaker plan is to develop a story for one of our ‘films’.
“The idea behind ‘we’ is celebrating the Supreme Court verdict while highlighting four strange love stories about how society (including soldiers) needs to take steps to become more inclusive and celebrate the diversity of” Onir said.
Onir is now talking to lawyers about his actions in the future.
“The filmmaker is included to question through the cinema.
True democracy does not exist unless it applies the same for all citizens regardless of gender, sexuality, caste or religious classes,” he said.