Formation | 1977 |
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Headquarters | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Region served | Bangladesh |
Official language | Bengali |
Website |
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The Bangladesh Film Censor Board is a regulatory agency that is responsible for the censorship of movies and is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. [1]
The censor board was set up in 1977 following the framing of Bangladesh Censorship of Film Rules. [1] The agency is responsible for the censorship of locally produced movies and foreign imports, and acts as the registrar of film clubs in Bangladesh. [2] Martuza Ahmed, the secretary of the Ministry of Information, is the ex-officio chairman of the board. [3] In 2015, the board blocked My Bicycle, the first film in the Chakma language (a minority language) in Bangladesh. [4] It also blocked a movie about the Rana Plaza building collapse in which more than a thousand garment workers died. [5] [6] Another movie was banned in which the villain wore a Mujib coat, a style associated with the founding president of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujib. [7]