{"id":76768,"date":"2026-03-20T02:24:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/mar\/19\/indian-film-board-blocks-release-of-oscar-nominated-gaza-drama-the-voice-of-hind-rajab"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:24:36","slug":"indian-film-board-blocks-release-of-oscar-nominated-gaza-drama-the-voice-of-hind-rajab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76768","title":{"rendered":"Indian film board blocks release of Oscar-nominated Gaza drama The Voice of Hind Rajab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Distributor says authorities warned screening Tunisian film-maker Kaouther Ben Hania\u2019s docudrama could harm India\u2013Israel relations<\/p>\n<p>The Indian release of The Voice of Hind Rajab, the Oscar-nominated Tunisian film about the death of a five-year-old girl during the Israel-Gaza war, has been blocked by the country\u2019s ratings body, according to the film\u2019s Indian distributor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/global\/the-voice-of-hind-rajab-censored-india-israel-ties-1236693216\/\">In a report by Variety<\/a>, Manoj Nandwana of Mumbai-based Jai Viratra Entertainment said that he was told that if the film was released, it would \u201cbreak up\u201d India-Israel relations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/mar\/19\/indian-film-board-blocks-release-of-oscar-nominated-gaza-drama-the-voice-of-hind-rajab\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distributor says authorities warned screening Tunisian film-maker Kaouther Ben Hania\u2019s docudrama could harm India\u2013Israel relationsThe Indian release of The Voice of Hind Rajab, the Oscar-nominated Tunisian film about the death of a five-year-old girl d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,71,69,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76769,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76768\/revisions\/76769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}