MIB drops films, jury head resigns

IN Media Watch Briefs | 14/11/2017

NDTV reports that Director Sujoy Ghosh, head of the  jury for the Indian Panorama section at the 48th International Film Festival of India, has resigned. Last week the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting reportedly removed two films from a list picked by the jury to be screened at the festival.  Missing from the list of films were Malayalam movie S Durga and the Marathi film Nude. Meanwhile  The Hindu tweeted that  film maker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, who has made S Durga, plans to file a writ petition in the Kerala High Court to protest  the non-inclusion.