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MUMBAI,INDIA NOVEMBER 30: Anushka Manchanda, Sarah-Jane Dias, Sandhya Mridul, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Amrit Maghera at the screening of their movie Angry Indian Goddesses in Mumbai.(Photo by Milind Shelte/India Today Group/Getty Images|
It seems it's no longer just the cuss words in a movie that the Censor Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has objections to.
The latest film to face the wrath of Censors is director Pan Nalin's Angry Indian Goddesses. According to reports, the board members have ordered as many as 17 cuts from the film which also includes images of Indian goddesses.
The images of two Indian goddesses -- a picture of Lakshmi in the credits, and later in the movie, a picture of Kali has also been blurred.
Besides words like 'fuck' and 'slut'-- 'adivasi', 'sarkar', and even 'Indian figure' have been cut.
“I went to the censor board after I muted all the cuss words, and I was asked to make 17 more cuts,” movie producer Gaurav Dhingra told DNA.
“It also included the muting of the word ‘lunch’, where one female protagonist is looking at a guy and says to her friend, “There comes your lunch,” Dhingra said.
Not surprisingly, Pan Nalin, the director of the movie is dismayed at the development. "I am super sad and hurt because we have used completely respectful images of Kali in the film, but we had to blur them out," he said.
"We cut people's head in the films, and suddenly we have to remove images of the goddesses," he added.
The film, which stars Sandhya Mridul, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Sarah-Jane Dias, Anushka Manchanda, Amrit Maghera, Rajshri Deshpande, Pavleen Gujral and Adil Hussain in lead roles, is seen as India’s first female buddy film, and has garnered a positive response in the international film circuit.
Top Scientists On God: Who Believes, Who Doesn't
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)(01 of08)
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"The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God."Clarification: The full quote, from one of Darwin's letters, carries a different sentiment.A young admirer asked Darwin about his religious views (the original inquiry is lost), and the great naturalist answered: "It is impossible to answer your question briefly; and I am not sure that I could do so, even if I wrote at some length. But I may say that the impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God; but whether this is an argument of real value, I have never been able to decide."
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)(02 of08)
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"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both." --American astrophysicist
Max Planck (1858-1947)(03 of08)
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"It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls."--German physicist, noted for work on quantum theory
Erwin Schroedinger (1887-1961)(04 of08)
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"I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experiences in a magnificently consistent order, but is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, god and eternity."--Austrian physicist, awarded Nobel prize in 1933
William H. Bragg (1862-1942)(05 of08)
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"From religion comes a man's purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hands are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped."--British physicist, chemist, and mathematician. Awarded Nobel Prize in 1915
Richard Feynman (1918-1988)(06 of08)
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"God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand."--American physicist, awarded Nobel Prize in 1965
Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)(07 of08)
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"I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science." --German-American rocket scientist
Nevill Mott (1905-1996)(08 of08)
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"Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer conception of God. At the same time, I am far from believing that science will ever give us the answers to all our questions."--English physicist, awarded Nobel Prize in 1977 (credit:Photo Credit: University Of Bristol )
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