NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday reconstituted the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), appointing several noted personalities, including Preity Zinta, Suniel Shetty, Rupali Ganguly, Pallavi Joshi, Pankaj Tripathi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Priyadarshan and Ricky Kej, to the 18-member panel.
The new board, headed by CBFC chairperson Shashi Shekhar Vempati, has been constituted with immediate effect for three years or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
The CBFC was last reconstituted in August 2017 for a three-year term. Members of that board continued beyond 2020 in the absence of a fresh reconstitution, under provisions permitting them to remain in office until their successors were appointed.
The new panel also includes film critic Vinod Anupam, actor Manoj Joshi, filmmaker Abhishek Jain, singer and former parliamentarian Hans Raj Hans, producer Supriya Yarlagadda, poet and writer Yatindra Mishra, and actor Nishigandha Wad.
Theatre director Waman Kendre and writer Ramesh Patange are the only members of the previous board to have been retained.
The outgoing board included actor Vidya Balan, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, former footballer Mihir Bhutia, actors Gautami Tadimalla and Jeevitha Rajasekhar, Vani Tripathi Tikoo, filmmaker T.S. Nagabharana and filmmaker Naresh Chandra Lal, besides Kendre and Patange.
