Anu Muhammad said, “One of the defining characteristics of a healthy society is that everyone can express their views, participate in debate and discussion, challenge opinions and generate new ideas, new knowledge and new forms of creativity. However, when someone faces attacks because of what they say or create, or when other people threaten or attempt to suppress their creativity, that is barbarism. We do not see that barbarism in our society. Stopping the screening of Bonolota Express is a manifestation of this. Earlier, people had stopped concerts, attacked religious places and stopped various exhibitions, plays, theater performances and folk music festivals.
Pointing out the connection between these incidents, Anu Muhammad said that those responsible for the latest move to stop the screening of Bonolota Express in Brahmanbaria had cited obscenity as the reason.
He said that a particular group has made the accusation without specifying what exactly they consider obscene.
He said, “The group making this claim considers anything that involves human creativity, innovation, or music to be obscene. Yet progress and progress throughout human history has depended on the development of creativity. If this group had been able to control humanity, such progress would never have been possible.”