The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Dhaka

The country's film industry seems to have started regaining a healthy scenario as the authorities launched a tough campaign to stamp out obscenity, a menace that dominated the arena for over one decade.

After years of strong campaign against gangsters and militants, elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) of late has been tasked with an extra assignment to carryout the cleansing drive raiding production houses and movie halls as scrapping of censor certificates alone appeared "not enough" in over the past years.

RAB officials said they seized tonnes of posters and reels of vulgar movies in the past one week as the authorities in emergency-ruled Bangladesh earlier this month ordered the campaign mandating them with all out authorities to fight obscenity and video piracy. "We will create a healthy environment in the movie industry so that good films can stage a comeback," Information Secretary Didarul Anwar, who is also the chairman of the Film Censor Board, told BSS.