"Don't say ban as it will give me a heart attack," she said, addressing reporters.
Thiruvananthapuram:
Dismissing reports of aban on her film Midnight's Children, celebrated filmmakerDeepa Mehta said the second screening of the film at theInternational Film Festival of Kerala was cancelled yesterdayfollowing a request from its distributor.
"Don't say ban as it will give me a heart attack," shesaid, addressing reporters here.
Alleging that the film had derogatory remarks againstlate Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the Youth Congress hadstaged a demonstration in front of the theatre where the film,based on Salman Rushdie's Booker winning novel by the sametitle, was to be screened.
"I can show an e-mail from the distributor for thecancellation of the second screening of the film. They wantedto save the viewers prior to its release," she said.Mehta said the screening of the film at IFFK was veryimportant. "When I informed Rushdie about the reception itgot, he told me 'I love Kerala'," she said.
Mehta said she felt that IFFK was an 'apolitical'festival lacking intervention from the state government.Former Minister Pandalam Sudhakaran, who led the YouthCongress march yesterday said in a statement that the filmdenigrates late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and an Indianfilmmaker should not have done that.
"Don't say ban as it will give me a heart attack," shesaid, addressing reporters here.
Alleging that the film had derogatory remarks againstlate Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the Youth Congress hadstaged a demonstration in front of the theatre where the film,based on Salman Rushdie's Booker winning novel by the sametitle, was to be screened.
"I can show an e-mail from the distributor for thecancellation of the second screening of the film. They wantedto save the viewers prior to its release," she said.Mehta said the screening of the film at IFFK was veryimportant. "When I informed Rushdie about the reception itgot, he told me 'I love Kerala'," she said.
Mehta said she felt that IFFK was an 'apolitical'festival lacking intervention from the state government.Former Minister Pandalam Sudhakaran, who led the YouthCongress march yesterday said in a statement that the filmdenigrates late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and an Indianfilmmaker should not have done that.
