“We are still trying to figure out what to do here,” says Vinay Shukla, co-director of An Insignificant Man - the documentary film that the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) currently has in its stranglehold.

As you know by now, for the release of An Insignificant Man in India, Vinay and Khushboo Ranka, the duo behind the docu, have been asked by the CBFC to get a ‘No Objection Certificate’ (NOC) from PM Narendra Modi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and former Delhi CM Sheila Dixit.

A demand unheard of for the certification of any documentary film till date.

Even India’s most controversially celebrated documentary filmmaker, Anand Patwardhan, is stumped by the CBFC’s demand.