Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 16 -- Renowned filmmaker Goutam Ghose, the only Indian recipient of the prestigious Vittorio De Sica Award, has called for replacing film censorship with an accreditation system, asserting that cinema, as an art form, cannot be subjected to restrictive controls.
Goutam Ghose, a special invitee to the IFFK, said cinema represents individual freedom and the collective essence of human experience.
"Cinema is an individual's freedom which cannot be separated from art. It is the essence of myriad experiences, and film perhaps suffers censorship the most among all art forms," he observed.
Belonging to the generation that followed legendary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak, Ghose acknowledge...