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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We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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Why is BJP wooing Bengali-origin Muslims in Assam?
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BJP Karnataka candidates Tejasvi Surya and K Sudhakar booked for electoral offences: EC
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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ISL: Kerala Blasters FC axe Ivan Vukomanovic as head coach
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Yamini Aiyer interview: With jobless growth, welfare has become a ‘compensation’, not a public right
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Canada: Amid anti-immigration rhetoric, curbing international students is a knee-jerk reaction
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‘Juna Furniture’ review: A simplistic crusade against the neglect of senior citizens
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As wetlands of Assam’s Majuli island go dry, ecology thrown out of balance