Abhishek Jawkar’s crime thriller Missing on a Weekend, about a band of friends who run into a criminal gang during a Goa getaway, was initially asked to carry out 50 cuts, including expletives and scenes of drug consumption. After Jawkar sent the Central Board of Film Certification a legal notice, the number of excisions came down to seven. The revising committee finally passed the film with three bleeps. The movie stars Pavan Malhotra and Karan Hariharan.
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Duty and distress: No easy solutions for mental health crisis in India’s central police forces
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Caste census: Will the 50% reservation cap soon be history?
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Homes turned to rubble, Kashmiri militants’ families question ‘collective punishment’
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Thriller: Every student in an elite Noida school is a suspect when a schoolmate is killed
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India’s complex history cannot be wished away through textbook revisions – it must be confronted
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The challenges of makhana’s rapidly rising appeal in india
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Indus Water Treaty: Pakistan has few legal options against India
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Hindi: The ‘national language’ that marginalises its own
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Bin free, litter-free, dust-free: How Indore became one of India’s cleanest cities
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Ramachandra Guha: In wake of Pahalgam, recalling Nehru’s advice on resisting Pakistan’s provocations