He earned a living working as a agent sending films
to the Censor Board for clearance. When he found massive corruption in
the film certification body, he helped the CBI expose it. But he's had
to pay a heavy price for it.
Whistle-blowers across the country
have complained of being harassed and targeted for exposing corruption
in the country. Pravin Mohare's case is perhaps a classic example, with
the former film agent's career going downhill after he exposed
corruption and he's now being forced to sell vegetables in a Mumbai
suburb.
Mohare was a film agent and learnt of bribery in the
censor board when he went to get a trailer cleared by the Central Board
of Film Certification. He went to the CBI with the allegations of
bribery. He put up his own Rs 50,000 to help trap former Censor Board
CEO Rakesh Kumar in 2014, reports Mumbai Mirror.
But since then things have only been going downhill for him.
Mohare
told the newspaper that producers started taking projects away from him
and other agents started avoiding him. He also had his producer
facilitator login id taken away after he filed a case of assault against
current chairman Pahalaj Nihalani.
And now, Mohare who once made Rs 80,000 a month sits at a stall the
suburb of Borivali where he sells vegetables to make earn Rs 600 a day
in an attempt to make ends meet.
What's worse is
that he's still to get the Rs 50,000 he had to spend to get the CBFC
chairperson caught in the sting. He says that while the CBI had promised
it would be refunded in about two months, he's still to get the money
back.
"The film industry now treats me like an outcast and I haven't gotten any work in several months. To make it worse, the CBI is yet to refund me."
"You are all alone if you are fighting against corruption. No one comes to support you," he said.
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