/> It looks like headlines don't augur well for movie screenings. After Parzania was stopped by "invisible forces" in Gujarat two other reality-based films in this season of reality cinema have faced strange ban orders.

Madhur Bhandarkar's Traffic Signal has been banned in Himachal Pradesh for apparently using a word that's derogatory to the eunuch word.

But director Madhur Bhandarkar makes a shocking revelation. "Kinnar, the word that I've supposedly used for eunuchs, isn't there in the film! Nobody refers to the eunuchs in my film as Kinnars.

And yet I've received a notification from the Himachal Principal Secretary (Home) telling me my film cannot be screened Himachal because it is likely to cause a breach of peace. Why? We had set aside seven prints for Himachal. For a small -budget film this is a big loss."

What could have triggered off this inexplicable ban? "I don't know," shrugs Madhur. "Maybe one of my actors was heard using the word Kinnar on television. I don't think it's a derogatory word.

I think this intolerance is engendering a new kind of fear on filmmakers specially realistic directors like me or Anurag Kashyap. We can't be doing truthful films if we've to be careful of every word we use."

Kayshyap's hard-hitting Black Friday was supposed to be the inaugural film at a film festival organized in Patna this week. Kashyap is clueless as to why his film wasn't finally screened.

According to sources the government feared communal repercussions if Kashyap's film was shown in Bihar.

Rahul Dholakia is still fighting to have Parzania released in Gujarat.

Says Dholakia, "When I got through the Indian censor board I thought my hurdles to seeing Parzania released were over. I didn't know other censors were waiting around the corner."