Censor Board Banned These 10 Bollywood Movies

A censor board is a committee which certifies whether a motion is liable to be publicised amongst the viewers or not. The board consists of non-official members and a chairperson and operates with its headquarters at Mumbai. The technique of certification is by The Cinematographic Act, 1952. Some films stand up to the expectations of the board, whereas others break life and thus remain as a dream yet to be fulfilled, because of its harsh language, explicit content, suggestive scenes, gender discrimination, Kashmir issues and so on and so forth. Here lies the list of top 10 such movies which was banned drastically by the censor board, but somehow the spectators managed to indulge themselves with viewing the content of the motion.

1. Mohalla Assi (2016)

Starring Sunny Deol Sunny Deol is a film actor, director and producer. >> Read More... as a priest, the movie depicts the scenario of fake Pandits residing in the banks of the Ganges, who bully innocent people in the name of the almighty. Assi is a famous ghat in the pilgrim city of Varanasi, where temples had once become a dominant source of income for the priests in the post-independence period. The film was due to be released on 2015 but had been postponed as a FIR had been filed against Deol, for the use of abusive language. The motion had been finally banned on April 8, 2016, by the CBFC.

2. Unfreedom Click to look into! >> Read More... (2014)

The flick brought two taboos in a single package, which offended the censor board to an outspread extent. The storyline revolves around a Muslim zealot in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... who decoys a Muslim scholar whom he intended to kill, while the other part of the motion captures lovemaking amongst two bisexual lovers. Although arraigned, the movie was still released in some states of India, while was banned in the rest.

3. Dazed In Doon (2010)

Doon is one amongst the most prestigious schools of India, situated in Uttarakhand. Probably an all-boys school, the director of the motion Ashvin Kumar Ashvin Kumar is an Indian director, producer, and >> Read More... , was himself a part of the school at his times. He shares the kind of experience one faces once inside the campus. Apart from the good times, he mentions the hardships and struggles along with the challenges that made him grow up. But the school could not digest the negative points as stated, and thus had the flick banned by the censor board.

4. Inshallah Football (2010)

Kashmir issue is another take up by the censor board, which thinks it as a sensitive subject. The drama is based on such a similar incident, whereby a Kashmiri boy dreams to achieve heights by playing football and thus intends to travel abroad for the same. But despite his talent and will, he is refuted, just because his father had been charged with militancy. The motion thus got banned by the censor board for its receptive storyline.

5. Firaaq Click to look into! >> Read More... (2008)

Based on Gujarat riots, the movie deeply hurt the sentiments of the spectators, as it had been based on harsh realities faced by the Hindus and Muslims. The drama was highly castigated, although it managed to release in some parts of the nation, but annexed rave reviews from audiences and critics as well.

6. Water (2005)

The Indian drama was based on the harsh realities faced by the widows of the nation. Shot in an ashram of Varanasi, the people even came down to the extent of breaking the set of the film, as a sign of protest. The storyline had been framed by Anurag Kashyap Born on 10th September 1972, Anurag Kashyap has es >> Read More... , which took up certain contentious issues like ostracism and chauvinism, which was highly disliked by the censor board, and thus the movie never expressed itself in the theaters.

7. Sins (2005)

An amatory journey of a Kerala priest, who falls for a woman and finally gets sexually attached to her. The play had a vast range of stills portraying lust and obsession, along with nudity, which made the censor board ban the same. The drama had been even criticized due to the explicit content on the Catholics.

8. Black Friday (2004)

The flick was loosely based on the writeup, Black Friday- The True Story of the Bombay Bomb blasts written by S.Hussain Zaidi. The movie received orders from the Bombay high court to put a ban on the same, as it had been based upon the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts.

9. The Pink Mirror (2003)

The movie depicted trans-sexuality amongst a gay teenager, trying to seduce a straight man. Even after the motion received rave reviews at major film festivals, but the storyline did not have be digested by the Censor Board of India, who claimed that the motion had a vast range of vulgarity showcased onscreen. The drama was finally banned, with its touchy gender script.

10. Kama Sutra (1996)

A sanctimonious tale of love which countenanced the wrath of the censor board. Although we did see it coming, but the movie has tagged a flop due to its drastic explicit and sexual content, wherein it finally got banned. The Mira Nair flick had been termed immoral when it tried to grab the sentiments of the lovers of the 16th century.