James Gun’s Overman Later this week joined theaters around the world, but in India, the man of steel flight was based by an indomitable enemy: Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Here the audience was treated for a version of the film, which was clearly stripped with a floating kiss of 33-seconds now with a 33-second floating kiss between Clarke Kent (David Karenswetws) and Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnhan). The romantic moment already waged in the trailers was allegedly considered “sensual” by CBFC, seeking its removal in exchange for a UA certificate.
A rapid wave of public resentment has since been followed online, with exaggerated fans to indifferent to sensor a kissing in superhero flicks, while Indian films go away with distant sleege -slices depiction of women, often under the guise of tradition or collective appeal.
But the surroundings Overman There is hardly a different event; Rather, it is the latest cape caught in CBFC scissors. There is no need to look at the floor of the cutting room to find Dev Patel MonkeyA politically -filled revenge saga was set in a distopian India, which was found to be ghostly by the certification board. Universal Pictures had already cleaned the pre-Khali house, exchange saffron banner for red and scrubbed scenes that attracted the lines between religion and violence. Nevertheless, despite these concessions, the film still failed to secure the screening date with CBFC. No official sanctions were announced, but the film was never certified. Industry inner sources described the move as a secret form of bureaucracy censorship: by officially not rejecting the film, the board still kept out of theaters, escaping from controversies. For Indian audience, Monkey It remains unseen, and, perhaps more clearly, unspecified.
Shortly after, LearnerAli Abbasi’s thorny biopic on Donald Trump reached the CBFC door, only immediately separated. The board demanded that the naked scenes were axed by an ax, Trump and his then wife Ivan trimmed a graphic sexual attack from 75%, and the word “Negro” was completely removed. They used to throw about smoking and drinking for good measures even in general public service announcements. Not words, Abbasi said that the world needed “vaccine against censorship”, arguing that what was left from his film after CBFC sorted looked barely the same.
Sometimes, films disappear without trace. Scene Baker’s Indie Drama AnoraWidely celebrated on the Global Awards Circuit and the Oscar was eventually crowned the best picture in 2025, originally slated for the release of November 2024 in India. Then it disappeared in the organ known as Indian cinefiles as “TBA”-all-family-familiar approval that the film’s possibility did not clarify the moral radar of CBFC. The story of a Brooklyn-based stripper is the story of getting married in a Russian elite, Anora For certification, too much, very complex, or simply can be very uncomfortable.
Was with a little more local ghosts SatisfactionA blistering Hindi-language drama created by an Indian artists and crew under the UK production banner. The film gave a storm to Cannes in 2024, winning and winning the leading award nomination, only stoned in its own backyard. CBFC did not provide technically ban SatisfactionBut instead, a laundry list of editing was sent back, so broad and vague, director Sandhya Suri said “impossible” to implement them. While the nuances remain under thanks to legal sanctions, it is estimated that the board interrogated the film of India’s police force, gender violence and systemic rot.
But even filmmakers who play with the rules are not safe. Halina Region of Baby girlA erotic drama starring Nicole Kidman was officially given A (adult) certificate, only to be carved anyway. The content of more than three minutes of “problematic” material, including intimate visual and spicy language, was stripped of, motivated critics to ask if adult authentication work if adults still need to take care of the child? The contradiction for adults to certify films and then to consider the same adults to be difficult or unable to process the processing of erotic materials continues the board’s credibility for the dog.
In a similar vein, Brady Corbett Oscar winner CruelistStarring Adrian Body and Gai Pierce, about a minute of nudity and sexual content were removed in India. While the deduction was less dramatic than other films, Pierce himself commented that such intervention could reduce the emotional weight and artistic intentions of a film. One minute may be shorter, but as Pearce said, “Sometimes these are uncomfortable parts that help in the land of the story.”
Of course, nothing happened on the deep confused moral compass of the board like Christopher Nolan OppenheimerThe film Wad released with his runtime, but not its integrity. Sex and nudity were thrown out with the notorious “CGI Black Dress”, the cigarette smoke disappeared in a puff of refusal, and a decisive scene with Florence Pugh and a lesson by the Bhagavad Gita expressed displeasure with government officials and Hindu nationalist groups. Never notice that the film is about a man who is struggling with the morality of making atomic bombs, for the real crisis, apparently, cited as Holy Scripture during sex. And although the audio remained, the Minister of Information and Broadcasting questioned how the scene made it in the first place.
Other Oscars hope, such as Steven Spielberg FabelmanHe also became a victim of Indian censorship. The CBFC mutes several anti -sectic slurs in the film, in which, in context, reflected the experience of the hero of hatred and bullying. In doing so, the board managed to rob its sting film, all in serving a more “Paleteable” viewing experience.
But perhaps the most spectacular episode of CBFC’s vigilance in recent memory came from courtesy Brad Pitt. F1The board allegedly asked filmmakers to digitally replace a middle finger emoji with a handful of emojis. Yes, it seems that we are now censoring emoji.
At the same time, Marvel From Bijali Also the wrath of the muted button was faced with five explains – “A **,” “A ** Hole,” “D ** KS,” “B *** H” and “PR ** K” – scrubbed. All this, despite the fact that the film was squarely targeted in old teenagers and young adults.
The history of editing CBFC is long and often shocking. By blurring wine bottles Ford V Ferrari To remove reference from Kashmir from Mission: Impossible – FallBoard decisions have consistently shown the desire to control the audience what they see and how they interpret it. Innocent eyes can begin as a well effort to mold, now curd is in a mechanism of cultural and political gatekeeping.
In OvermanThe missing kisses may seem trivial, but in a film that really blows the flag for truth and justice, it speaks to versions.
Published – July 14, 2025 03:06 pm IST
