MUMBAI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry is in a fix that has broken out on the late Satyajit Ray’s documentary Sikkim, what with the district Court of Gangtok re-imposing the ban on the documentary on Thursday.

The documentary was banned by the Indian government in 1975 and never saw the light of the day since. The Indian government finally allowed the ban to be lifted recently and was to be screened at the Kolkata Film Festival.

“We have received orders from the district judge court of Gangtok via email and have been directed not to screen Sikkim. We received an ad interim injunction order from the court on Thursday,” confirmed Nilanjan Chatterjee, director, Kolkata Film Festival.

Within minutes of the first public screening of the Satyajit Ray documentary, its remaining shows were suspended following the Court’s direction.

The documentary was commissioned by the last Chogyal (king) of Sikkim, Palden Thondup Namgyal and his America-born queen Hope Cooke.