Novelist Mohammed Hanif (A Case of Exploding Mangoes) writes about the strange case of Sarmad Khoosat’s film Zindagi Tamasha (“Circus of Life”), which has won multiple prizes at international festivals, was cleared by three Pakistani boards of censors, made the country’s official entry for the Best International Film Oscar, glommed onto as a political football by people who hadn’t seen it, protested by enormous mobs who knew nothing about it, uncleared by those same boards of censors, and then re-cleared. The movie still hasn’t been shown there. – The New York Times
