The Central Board of Film Certification cannot control the internet (just yet) but it certainly can and does protect certain personalities from satire in the movies, such as Baba Shamdev (a reference to the wealthy godman Baba Ramdev). Meanwhile, Thithi (a certificate is not available) had to mute profanity and bleep out a visual of one of the characters looking at sexually explicit photographs.
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