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Rifts within India’s movie censor panel spill into the open

March 12, 2015 publisher agency, angeles, ashoke-pandit, central-board, certification, congress, diffuse-threats, pauses-while, regal, sign-outside, social-media

By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) – A prominent member of India's government censors took to social media on Thursday to rail against its chairman, exposing rifts within a censorship panel that has thwarted the theatrical release of films such as Hollywood hit “Fifty Shades of Grey”. Ashoke Pandit, a Bollywood film-maker, accused censor chief Pahlaj Nihalani of treating India's Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) like his personal fiefdom.