"The poster showed the lead actor holding a bottle of beer and smoking a cigarette; unsurprisingly, the board nixed both elements and rejected the compromise of erasing them while leaving smoke still trailing out of the star's mouth. In the end, the buyer was provided with an image of the hero on a motorcycle with his love interest, a misleading visual he declined to convert into a bait-and-switch display standee."
"Made in part with post-production funds from the festival's Asian Cinema Fund, Sanju Surendran's If On a Winter's Night tracks the downward economic spiral of a creative class couple freshly relocated to to New Delhi. Abhi (Roshan Abdul Rahoof) sketches portraits and is preparing for a show but has no money until that happens; Sarah (Bhanu Priyamvada) works for an unspecified film festival."
A Malaysia-based genre film buyer encountered his adopted country's censor board when clearing promotional materials for a Bollywood film, resulting in removal of beer and cigarette imagery and an unacceptable substituted poster. Horror filmmakers and genre-makers at the Busan International Film Festival's Asian Project Market remain comparatively financially robust, attracting practical exchanges and clear commercial focus. Sanju Surendran's If On a Winter's Night received post-production funds from the Asian Cinema Fund and follows a creative-class couple who relocate to New Delhi and spiral economically. Abhi sketches portraits and awaits gallery income while Sarah works for an unspecified low-paying film festival position, leaving the couple financially precarious.
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