{"id":386565,"date":"2022-11-16T21:36:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=386565"},"modified":"2022-11-16T21:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:39:36","slug":"censor-board-clears-joyland-for-nationwide-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/censor-board-clears-joyland-for-nationwide-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Censor Board Clears &#8216;Joyland&#8217; for Nationwide Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The controversial award-winning film, <strong><em>Joyland,<\/em><\/strong> has just been officially cleared for a nationwide release in cinemas on 18 November. The film has the full approval of the Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC) and will now be screened with a few cuts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The news was also announced on Twitter by the Head of the Prime Minister&#8217;s (PM) Social Reforms Unit, Salman Sufi.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The film <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Joyland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Joyland<\/a> has been cleared for release by the Censor board review committee formed at the direction of PM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMShehbaz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CMShehbaz<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Freedom of speech is fundamental right &amp; should be nourished within ambits of the law. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JoylandBan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JoylandBan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vQodv7fjOk\">https:\/\/t.co\/vQodv7fjOk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Salman Sufi (@SalmanSufi7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SalmanSufi7\/status\/1592908841737654272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"p-alsoread\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">ALSO READ<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/umair-jaswal-to-play-shoaib-akhtar-in-biopic-rawalpindi-express\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Umair Jaswal to Play Shoaib Akhtar in Biopic \u2018Rawalpindi Express\u2019<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_23A3871D-DDD9-06FD-2AF8-7A6FA0B3E0D5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">The Government of Pakistan barred the nationwide release of <strong><em>Joyland<\/em><\/strong> on 11 November before it was due to be screened in cinemas. As per the official notice from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, written complaints had been received that the movie contains \u201chighly objectional material\u201d that is against the \u201csocial values and moral standards of our society\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_23A3871D-DDD9-06FD-2AF8-7A6FA0B3E0D5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-379189\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/joyland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/joyland.jpg 800w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/joyland-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/joyland-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/joyland-758x948.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_A08C632C-2DFF-FD48-FF50-7A7231127BB9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">The<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>ministry\u2019s notice also mentioned that cinemas operating under the CBFC\u2019s jurisdiction cannot screen <strong><em>Joyland.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_3BF99A66-48FA-361F-5190-7A941262CBC3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Note that the CBFC had granted a certificate for the release of the movie in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial award-winning film, Joyland, has just been officially cleared for a nationwide release in cinemas on 18 November. The film has the full approval of the Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC) and will now be screened with a few cuts. The news was also announced on Twitter by the Head of the Prime Minister&#8217;s (PM) Social Reforms Unit, [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/censor-board-clears-joyland-for-nationwide-release\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":386122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2557,2199,2522,1293,2515,1297],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cinema","8":"category-featured","9":"category-lgbtq","10":"category-lollywood","11":"category-movie-film","12":"category-tv-movies-music"},"wps_subtitle":"The movie is scheduled to be screened across Pakistan on 18 November.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/joyland-feat-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/joyland-feat-758x426.jpg",758,426,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/joyland-feat.jpg",1000,562,false]},"author_name":"Sana Roger","categories_name":["Cinema","Featured","LGBTQ","Lollywood","Movie\/Film","TV &amp; Film"],"title_text":"Censor Board Clears \u2018Joyland\u2019 for Nationwide Release","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2557,2199,2522,1293,2515,1297&exclude=386565","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386565"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=386565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}