New Delhi: Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan and director Goutam Ghose were on Thursday, January 14 included in the Shyam Benegal-led committee that has been set up by the government on January 1 to revamp the censor board.
With the Censor Board caught in eye of storm with several controversies in the past months, the government formed the panel to look at the functioning of the board.

Shyam Benegal is quoted in media saying that since it was felt that more regions must be given representation in the panel, it has been decided to take Mr Haasan, Mr Ghosh and filmmaker Shaji Karun on board.

Benegal and other members of the committee, including filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Ad-man Piyush Pandey and film journalist Bhawana Somayaa met Minister for Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley and Minister of State for Infromation and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore last week.

Before the panel was as set up, Jaitley had made his desire known that he would like the Certification Board to be “controversy-free” and added that he had discussed with experts on what the future role of the body should be.