The Bastard Child gets a new name...The Children of War

After the Censor Board disapproved the title of their film The Bastard Child, producer Soumya Devvrat and director Mrityunjay Devvrat have changed the title to The Children of War. But the director is not too happy about the whole affair. “The Censor Board didn’t approve of the title but no scene had to be cut. I went by their decision as I want to complete all formalities and release the film as soon as possible. It will release as Children of War with a tagline ‘Nine months to freedom’ in India and Bangladesh but the original title will stay intact when the film will release abroad,” he said. Children of War is based on the Bangladesh genocide where thousands of women were raped and the resulting illegitimate children during the war for the liberation of Bangladesh. The film depicts the nine months of inhuman attacks of the Pakistani army during the Genocide that took place in East Pakistan in 1971 and the struggle that followed of the Bangladeshis to attain independence from these atrocities. The film stars the likes of Raima Sen, Indraneil Sengupta, Farooq Sheikh, Tillotama Shome and Victor Banerjee among others.