November 26, 2017
After days of delay, the IFFI's Indian Panorama jury will
view the controversial film 'S Durga' on Monday evening, a jury member said on
Sunday.
"We have been informed by IFFI that the film will be screened at
6 p.m. on Monday," the jury member said on the condition of anonymity. The
screening for the 10-member jury will be held at the festival grounds in Panaji.
Mumbai-based director and screenwriter Ruchi Narain also confirmed the
screening of the film for the jury. "We have been informed about the screening
details by IFFI," she told IANS.
The Sanal Kumar Sasidharan film was
dropped from the screening schedule of the 48th International Film Festival of
India, along with another film 'Nude', triggering controversy.
Three
members, including the head of the jury panel Sujoy Ghosh, have resigned from
their position in protest against the dropping of the two films, while six jury
members have written to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry raising
concerns over the dropping, after they were cleared by the festival jury.
After Sasidharan petitioned the Kerala High Court, the court directed IFFI
to screen the film at the festival, after a censored version of the movie was
screened for the jury.
An appeal by the Information and Broadcasting
Ministry to stay the court direction was also rejected by the High Court on
Friday.