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9 Films that were censored by CBFC before its pan-India release
50 Sheds of GreyHollywood's BDSM drama '50 Shades of Grey' was in limbo after it faced the CBFC's chopping block for featuring all sorts of sex scenes that explored bondage, dominance, sadism.
HaiderVishal Bhardwaj's 'Haider' was allowed to release with a U/A certification, but only after it made 41 cuts, which included muting of words and abuses like 'f**cked'.
DeadpoolThe Ryan Reynolds superhero film ‘Deadpool’ had to cut short the sex scene in the movie before getting released in India and cut out scene of head being blown.
Udta PunjabShahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh and Alia Bhatt's 'Udta Punjab' was put on the chopping block when the CBFC ordered 94 cuts in the film including names of cities to abusive words.
RustomTwo mild cusswords had to be deleted from Akshay Kumar's 'Rustom' as the CBFC felt that Akki's character was a 'clean decent man' and that 'abuses didn't sound nice from him'.
PadmaavatBesides the several cuts and costume edits, the CBFC ordered Sanjay Leela Bhansali to change his film's title, from 'Padmavati' to 'Padmavat', with a direction to add a disclaimer that film doesn’t glorify Sati.
SanjuThe CBFC asked the makers of the Ranbir Kapoor starring biopic of Sanjay Dutt to chop the scene that featured an 'overflowing prison toilet' as they felt it 'did not add value to the narration'.
PathaanThe CBFC has asked the makers of 'Pathaan' to revise certain parts of the Shah Rukh Khan starter and even the 'Besharam Rang' song, after the right-wing group flagged their concern over it.
9 Films that were censored by CBFC before its pan-India release9 Films that were censored by CBFC before its pan-India release