When Shekhar Kapur Received His Filmfare Award For Bandit Queen In Handcuffs

Shekhar Kapur’s social media timeline can greatest be described as a treasure trove of reminiscences. The filmmaker typically shares photos and movies of the previous, sharing enjoyable and poignant notes on his skilled life. On Thursday, Shekhar Kapur gave us the right Throwback Thursday put up by wanting again at his Filmfare win in 1995. Nonetheless, within the picture shared, he’s not seen holding the award as is customary with such photos, as a substitute, Shekhar Kapur is seen elevating his handcuffed fingers on stage. Explaining why, Shekhar Kapur wrote, “Was requested by Filmfare to not make any political or controversial statements for my award for Bandit Queen. The ceremony was being televised on nationwide TV. And the movie was banned anyway…I saved my promise. Did not say a phrase … however .. that is how I went on stage handcuffed.”

The movie, based mostly on the lifetime of Phoolan Devi, was banned by Indian authorities citing graphic depictions of violence and rape. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court docket later allowed the movie to be re-released theatrically. Nonetheless, “The CBFC minimize out about 2 minutes of profanity and shortened all rape scenes for an ‘A’ (adults) score in 1995. 17 minutes was minimize for a U/A score for tv,” as per IMDb.

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Was requested by FilmFare to not make any political or controversial statements for my award for Bandit Queen. The ceremony was being televised on Nationwide TV. And the movie was banned anyway ..

I saved my promise. Did not say a phrase .. however .. that is how I went on stage .. handcuffed pic.twitter.com/8VBy4n23fv

— Shekhar Kapur (@shekharkapur) June 28, 2023

A video posted by Filmfare options his successful speech after receiving the award. When requested if the award had assuaged the grief of Bandit Queen not being nominated for the Oscars the director stated, “Generally the Oscars usually are not sufficient. Generally the Oscars do not matter. Generally a movie is way better than the Oscars, way more necessary,” with the award in his cuffed fingers.

In a separate post on Instagram, Shekhar Kapur offered additional context and stated, “Zoom into my wrists carefull, you may see them handcuffed. It was what I known as the #BanditQueen impact .. Filmfare determined to provide me an award for my movie Bandit Queen. However as a result of it was banned and since there was a lot controversy across the movie, they made me promise I’d not make any political or controversial statements…because the awards ceremony was going out stay on Nationwide TV I saved my promise…and did not say a phrase…I took the award and raised my fingers up within the air and the viewers noticed that I used to be handcuffed! The viewers roared in approval. Actions typically communicate better than phrases.”

Within the picture, Shekhar Kapur is seen receiving the Filmfare trophy from director Subhash Ghai.

Earlier this month, Shekhar Kapur shared more details about Bandit Queen, this time centred around Manoj Bajpayee. Sharing a nonetheless of the actor from the movie, he wrote, “Manoj Bajpayee as Maan Singh in Bandit Queen. Whereas we had been filming Bandit Queen within the Dholpur district of Rajasthan, we had been suggested to take particular safety as there have been nonetheless Dacoit gangs and teams energetic within the space Manoj was taking part in Maan Singh, who was nonetheless at massive. Nonetheless energetic, and we heard he was working within the space we had been filming in. One night time the actual Maan Sing slipped into our units at night time and needed to satisfy the person taking part in him. Apparently, the actual Maan Singh and Manoj acquired drunk collectively and what truly handed between them … solely Manoj can let you know … However what an journey, what an expertise for an actor, taking part in an actual stay dacoit being hunted by the police being confronted by the dacoit himself…And by the best way, Bandit Queen was Manoj Bajpayee’s first movie .. and the way he has change into the most effective actors we have now on display in the present day.”

Shekhar Kapur’s most up-to-date work was the 2022 movie What’s Love Obtained to Do with It?