New Delhi " Actor Adil Hussain, whose film"Un-Freedom" failed to get a certificate for release in India, Mar. 31 said banning the same-sex love story was"baseless."
"Un-Freedom," helmed by Florida-based director Raj Amit Kumar, is a thriller that chronicles a lesbian love story set in New York and New Delhi and is said to be inspired by Faiz Ahmad Faiz"™s poem"Ye Dagh Dagh Ujala." Hussain plays the father of the Indian protagonist in the movie.
"It does not need to be banned. Today, people get everything on the Internet. By banning "˜Un-Freedom,"™ we are showing disrespect towards the nation. It"™s underestimating the wisdom of the citizen. Things don"™t work like that," said Hussain.