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Meanwhile, Santosh Singh Jain, president of the Film Federation of India, said that a meeting of the film producers was called, as per Sushma Swaraj’s advice, to consider whether the green channel and red channel method applied for customs clearances was acceptable to film producers.

“In principle, Mumbai’s producers agree to the minister’s suggestion, but we are yet to meet producers from other centres to ascertain their views. Only if there is a consensus will we ask the minister to spell out the details of the green and red signals. In any case, the decision has to be taken by the Film Federation of India,” he pointed out.

The meeting, chaired by Jain, was attended by Yash Chopra, Surinder Kapoor, Gaffarbhai Nadiadwala, SK Kapur, KD Shorey, Amit Khanna, Satish Kulkarni, TC Dewan, Surjit Aujla, and Vinod Gantra of FICCI. Sultan Ahmed emphasised that in future all members of the censor board should be drawn from the film industry and only the regional officer should be a Government appointee. Even the power to constitute examining committees or revising committees should rest with the film industry.