December 25, 2025 10:46 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Tarique Rahman returns to Bangladesh after 17 years | Shocking killing inside AMU campus: teacher shot dead during evening walk | Horror on Karnataka highway: sleeper bus bursts into flames after truck crash, 9 killed | PM Modi attends Christmas service at Delhi church, sends message of love and compassion | Delhi erupts over lynching of Hindu man in Bangladesh; protest outside High Commission | Targeted killing sparks global outrage: American lawmakers condemn mob lynching of Hindu man in Bangladesh | Assam on a ‘powder keg’: Himanta Biswa Sarma flags demographic shift, Chicken’s Neck fears | Bangladesh on edge: Student leader shot as pre-poll violence deepens after Hadi killing | Historic deal sealed: India, New Zealand sign landmark Free Trade Agreement in record time | Supreme court snubs urgent plea to stop PMO’s chadar offering at Ajmer Sharif

Vidya Balan feels 'happy' to be be appointed as CBFC member

| | Aug 13, 2017, at 02:53 am
Mumbai, Aug 12 (IBNS): Actress Vidya Balan on Saturday said she is happy to join the reconstituted Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) as a member.

"I am very happy to join the CBFC and I hope to fulfill my responsibilities as a member to the best of my abilities. (1/3)," she tweeted as she posted her reaction over the appointment.

She said:"I look forward to this new and exciting phase where our cinema will be allowed to reflect the sensibilities, realities (2/3)."

"And complexities of the society we are living in today, (3/3)," Vidya Balan said.

The CBFC has been reconstituted for three years term or until further orders, whichever is earlier.

Prasoon Joshi has been named the head of the CBFC.

CBFC Board members:

. Gautami Tadimalla

·         Narendra Kohli

·         Naresh Chandra Lal

·          Neil Herbert Nongkynrih

·          Vivek Agnihotri

·         Waman Kendre

·        Vidya Balan

·         T.S. Nagabharana

·         Ramesh Patange

·         Vani Tripati Tikoo

·          Jeevitha Rajasekhar

·         Mihir Bhuta
 

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.