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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Centre changes election conduct rules days after HC tells EC to provide poll documents to petitioner
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Expelled for non-vegetarian tiffin: Why a mother went to court against her son’s school
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Why has the number of Hajj pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir fallen sharply?
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What a meeting with a woman entrepreneur in Kolkata taught a German diplomat about women in India
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‘Bride in the Hills’: Kannada writer Kuvempu’s novel depicts life under the ruthless regime of caste
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Protected Area Regime reimposed in Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram
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1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting
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Shirish Patel, urban planner and civil engineer, dies at 92
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Shirish Patel: The urban planner who looked beyond the vanity of Mumbai’s privileged
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‘Why is EC afraid of transparency?’: Opposition parties after Centre changes election conduct rules