Shlok Sharma’s Haraamkhor, about the affair between a teacher and his minor student, waged a long and hard battle to get passed by the Central Board of Film Certification. The Film Certification Appellate Tribunal eventually cleared the film after it was turned down by the Examining Committee. The payoff: a scroll warning audiences that sex with minors is an offence in the scenes featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Shweta Tripathi.
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Shirish Patel: The urban planner who looked beyond the vanity of Mumbai’s privileged
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Actor Allu Arjun’s home vandalised in Hyderabad, eight arrested
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The obscure, 226-year-old law Donald Trump plans use to deport foreign nationals
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1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting