NUJS Kolkata banned film shooting on campus, after alleged complaints to the administration from faculty and students for disturbance caused by the shooting of a Bhojpuri film inside the Salt Lake law school.
NUJS Kolkata banned all movies from being shot on campus, after complaints from faculty and students for disturbance caused by the shooting of a Bhojpuri film inside the Salt Lake law school.
According to an office order signed by the registrar and circulated today to faculty and staff members, department heads, campus supervisors, personal assistants to the vice chancellor and registrar and to the student juridical association president (see copy below):
The campus premises of the university shall not be used anymore for any kind of film shooting activities. This has approval of the vice chancellor.
Sources within the campus commented that students and faculty had raised objections before the administration, headed by NUJS vice chancellor (VC) Ishwara Bhat, against the film’s shooting, due to “students facing issues in enjoying campus facilities, disturbance during class and generally, being drooled at by the crew members”.
The shooting inside the campus went on for five days, confirmed three sources within the campus.
One source commented: “One fine morning last week I entered the campus to see this farce going on right inside the front gate. On inquiry, I got to know that a Bhojpuri movie is being shot of all things. I’d got a considerable shock, to be honest. This continued for next five days, including song and dance routines even while classes were going on. [Some students and teachers] objected quite vociferously.”
It is understood that no information was shared with faculty members before giving permissions to the film crew, and the shooting only stopped after students and faculty raised objections before Bhat on Sunday night, as they were told he was out of station at a wedding until then.
“The whole episode has just left me with a very bad taste in the mouth,” one source added. The film, zila champaran, was reportedly scheduled to be shot from 16 January onwards in Kolkata.
Another campus source added: “An institution of excellence in legal academia where student’s interest and teaching is being compromised due to raucous shooting of sensual songs inside the offices of administration and as well without any approvals or sanctity of security for the students and faculty. It […] speaks volumes on the state of current administration which compromises on the few effective working days it has on such activities.”
NUJS is due for a judicial review, which was signed off by its ex-chancellor, former Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur in November. No members were appointed to the commission until November, and CJI Thakur has now retired.
A day before the renewal of Bhat’s tenure as VC in September 2016, students had signed a resolution raising several administrative irregularities at the law school.
We have reached out to Bhat for comment yesterday but have not received a response.
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Pray tell though, if the college thought the issue serious enough to issue a ban after the shooting, how is it gossip?
1) Who approved the shooting?
2) How much did the film crew pay as fee for shooting?
3) Who collected the fee?
4) Was a part of the payment paid underhand in cash, or was all of it paid in cheque?
Problem with NUJS folks is that they are a bunch of elitist morons who project themselves as the guardians of finesse,moral uprightness and modern thinking amongst law school junta. Secretly, they are a bunch of immature people with strong tendencies to be bullies - they hide all that with their glib talk of all the things that are politically correct.
Mere office aa jao - Dhanbad se nikal kar Calcutta, Lucknow, Mathura hote hue, Mumbai ko jaane waali NUJS Express ke dhue ne kai yatri gun ko ghayal kiya hai.
http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/for-law-professor-life-turns-full-circle/905168/
It is just a small problem which happened. All your reports on Professor Bhat is negative. You have not mentioned the many positive things done by him, such as improving placement, improving discipline, improving academics and producing two Rhodes scholar, improving infrastructure and recruitment of faculties.
Last of all I want to stay your reports has zero value as Professor Bhat got extension despite your efforts and has become longest serving VC of NUJS and one of longest serving is any NLU.
So I request you to remove name of Hon'ble VC and instead mention positive things done by him.
NUJS has produced Rhodes scholars and will continue to do so. Same with NLS and NALSAR. The common theme through all of these institutions is that despite corrupt, inept administrations and faculty, the students manage to pull stuff off. Only a CAG audit (or judicial probe) into each of these - especially NLS - will help in the long run.
http://www.livelaw.in/ku-recommends-debarring-law-academy-principal-lakshmi-nair-five-years/
Read this, big controversy on in Kerala about Kerala Law Academy.
I hear affiliation issues, land grab, abusing students on caste and creed by the principal.
"In its report, the Committee observed that the positioning of two cameras in the corridors leading to the bathroom in the Girls’ Hostel did trespass into the privacy of its inmates".
I also heard princi forcing students to work in restaurants, I do not vouch for the veracity of this, just heard this as a rumor, may not be true.