Rejecting a petition seeking to block the release of film An Insignificant Man based on Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.Supreme Court said that Filmmakers and writers should be allowed to enjoy freedom of speech and expression and there can\u2019t be restrictions put on this,\u00a0 SC stressed all creative people have the right to enjoy their works in production of films and dramas.<\/p>\n
The court\u2019s observation comes amidst countrywide protests over Sanjay Leela Bhansali\u2019s latest film, Padmavati, for allegedly distorting the depiction of its main character.<\/p>\n
Rejecting the petition against Kejriwal\u2019s film, which will be released on November 17, the bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud said: \u201cCourts should be extremely slow in passing restrain order\u201d as there can\u2019t be curbs on the freedom of speech and expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rejecting a petition seeking to block the release of film An Insignificant Man based on Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.Supreme Court said that Filmmakers and writers should be allowed to enjoy freedom of speech and expression and there can\u2019t be restrictions put on this,\u00a0 SC stressed all creative people have the right to enjoy their …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[1259,1261,1266,1260,1257,1267,1264,1263,1265,232,1262,1268,328,1258],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-india-news","tag-an-insignificant-man","tag-arvind-kejriwal","tag-chief-justice-dipak-misra","tag-delhi-chief-minister","tag-freedom-of-speech-of-filmmakers","tag-justice-am-khanwilkar-and-justice-dy-chandrachud","tag-kejriwals-film","tag-main-character","tag-on-november-17","tag-padmavati","tag-sanjay-leela-bhansalis-latest-film","tag-speech-and-expression","tag-supreme-court","tag-writers"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}