"I do not believe the censor board or the Ministry of knowledge and Broadcasting has become tougher. I'VE seen them becoming more liberal," Banerjee told IANS at the sidelines of the continued 12th Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival.
Lately, the censor board have been especially particular about letting explicit, intimate, abusive and titillating content make it to the large screen - either as a part of a series in a movie and even as a part of a film trailer.
Banerjee says his last film "Shanghai" was passed with none cuts, except "only a voluntary cut."
But what troubles the 43-year-old are the motives of several public activists, who attempt to impose self-censorship previous to any film's release.
"I do not believe censors are censoring films up to the opposite public activists' self-appointed censorship. It's our own society and we're proscribing ourselves.
"I do not believe lets lay the blame at the government's role and absolve ourselves from being conservative, reactionary and scared of our own descent," he added.
The filmmaker made his Bollywood debut with 2006 film "Khosla Ka Ghosla" and has gone directly to make intense films like "Oye Lucky Lucky Oye", "Love Sex Aur Dhoka", and most recently "Shanghai".
Asked if this was planned or it just happened, Banerjee said: "It is determined by your individual personal growth or personal decline, whichever way you desire to take it. Nothing was planned."
"In fact, when 'Khosla Ka Ghosla' came out, lots of people said that it is vitally refreshing and intense; lots of people also said that they enjoyed it, though it was not light comedy at all.
" 'Oye Lucky...' was darker, 'Love Sex Dhoka' was even darker. I MIGHT agree, somewhere compromises have become lesser and lesser, but collectively the pressure to deliver a larger project started increase. So it's the fight between two impulses," he added.
Banerjee admits his films don't cause a flutter on the box office, but says he feels content with audience reactions.
"I have tried to build whatever I WILL BE ABLE TO out of private experience. My roughly films never set the box-office on fire. They recover money and prosper.
"When people come to me and say they have got liked my film or they have got understood my film, I THINK less lonely and no more scared because being at odds generally is a scary situation.
"People make films to make cash and be famous, and i'm no different. I NEED to be different, but there's something that should be derived by making films like 'Shanghai' or 'LSD'," he added.
After "Shanghai", Banerjee revealed he's engaged on two scripts, one in all them a detective thriller.
"One of them is fully finished. This is a story from a 16-year-old's standpoint. This can be a detective thriller set in Calcutta of the 1940s. This can be a romantic and period detective film.
"My second script is on violence. I'VE always been considering violence and from 'LSD' to 'Shanghai', I GET deeper into violence," he said.
