How India's blocking of a film exposing real-life police abuses backfired

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4032×3024+0+0/resize/4032×3024!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4c%2F91%2F6cd3686d4c8893b07c4035c0279f%2F4.jpg' alt='In the second week of July, hundreds in Bandala village in the Indian state of Punjab attended the screening of Satluj, a film blocked by the Indian government on grounds of “national security.”
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When Indian authorities scrubbed the biopic of activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, local villagers and activists turned its censorship into a grassroots movement.

(Image credit: Omkar Khandekar)

Source: NPR Topics: News