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A little while ago A Nice Indian Boy, a romantic comedy directed by Roshan Sethi, on love, identity and cultural belonging, turned into a censorship battle over a single word in its title: Indian. Sethi is the latest casualty of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC’s) scrutiny of movie titles — referencing country, religion, caste or…
Parasite had 3 minutes and 54 seconds of content modified Between 2017 and 2025, Indian censor board altered more than 720 hours of film content, data show. The changes included deleting scenes or music, replacing dialogues, and inserting metadata such as anti-smoking warnings. Data further show that nearly 550 hours (76%) of the modified content…
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) this month made a key change to a portal it uses to publish ‘cut lists’ of films, making it harder to routinely review the censorship it imposes on films. The e-Cinepramaan portal, used by studios to submit paperwork for films, and make fee payments for getting their films…
A still from ‘Punjab 95’ | Photo Credit: RSVP Movies More than two years after completion, Punjab 95, starring Diljit Dosanjh as human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, remains unreleased, trapped in a cycle of delays and censorship. Despite being privately screened at Cannes for a small group of Indian and international journalists, the film’s…
Vetri Maaran. File | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Popular film director and producer C. Vetri Maaran has approached the Madras High Court challenging the denial of a censor certificate for Andrea Jeremiah-starrer Tamil movie Manushi, produced by him and directed by Gopi Nainar. Justice N. Anand Venkatesh is slated to hear his writ…
