Indian Movies BANNED in India

Now is the time to find out 11 Indian Movies banned in India for various reasons. Most of these bans happened due to public outrage or because of Government interference. Censor board usually pass the movie with cuts and certificates but in many cases many Bollywood Hindi Films and film in many Indian languages face outrage by certain section of society or Government intolerance of criticism. SO lets find out more about 11 Indian Movies Banned in India

Some of these movies were later released after either Court Decision or Change in Leadership or after cuts.

1. Aandhi

It was first big Indian Movie banned in India. It was banned during Emergency by Indira Gandhi and subsequently released in 1977 after Janata Party came into power. Indira Gandhi thought that the character of politician Aarti Devi played by Suchitra Sen was her portrayal and she took the benefit of Emergency to ban the movie altogether.

2. Kissa Kursi Ka

Kissa Kursi Ka was a political spoof made in 1977 (Emergency Period). The film was banned by the Congress government for lampooning the Emergency. The master prints and all copies was lifted from the Censor Board office and burned by Sanjay Gandhi supporters. The movie was later remade with a different cast. This was second instance when Government Interfered in releasing a movie. Anyway, That was Period of Emergency in India.

3. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

One of the first Hollywood Movies banned in India. A Blockbuster Hollywood action Film which was banned temporarily for its “negative” depiction of Indians. The ban was later removed.

4. Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love

India is the inventor of Kama Sutra. Our “Modern Society” and “Ideology” don’t like to talk about it. The film released in 1196 but faced ban. It was banned due to its sexual content. Late the version released in India had 2 minute cut of nudity.

5. Fire

Fire is another name in list of Indian Movies banned in India. It was passed by censor board after proper certification. But on its opening day in India, some film theaters were attacked by Hindu fundamentalists for depicting a lesbian relationship. The film was withdrawn and sent to back to the Censor Board but later it released uncut. This was One of those Indian Movie Banned in India because of Fundamentalist Outrages.

6. Hawayein

Hawayein was set against the backdrop to the 1984 Sikh genocide. It was passed by censor board but movie faced outrages of public especially in state of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Jammu Kashmir.

7. The Pink Mirror

Another example of Censor Board and Government interfere. The Pink Mirror is another Indian Movies Banned in India. The Pink mirror was supposed to release in 2004 but Censor Board denied movie any rating because of its content. It Said to be the first Indian film to comprehensively focus on Indian transsexuals. Indian Censor Board decided on behalf of Crores of Indians that film is not worthy to be released because it is vulgar and offensive.
The film still remains banned in India, but has screened at numerous festivals all over the world and won awards. The critics have applauded it for its ‘sensitive and touching portrayal of marginalized community’.

8. Water

Another Name in list of Indian Movies Banned In India. Maker of Fire Deepa Mehta another raised sensitive and important in her next movie Water. Theme of the movie was about the condition of Woman in India and it was set in the backdrop of 1938, when India was under British rule.

The movie faced opposition during its shooting from hardline Hindu organizations in Varanasi. The sets were destroyed. The Uttar Pradesh government decided to stop the shooting on 31 January 2000. The shooting was shifted to Sri Lanka later.

Film was later released as a Canadian film and got praise from all over the world.

9. Kaum De Heere

The film was banned by the central government after the Intelligence Bureau had warned that the film may cause communal tensions. Allegedly the film glorified the assassins of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Film is still barred from releasing in India.

10. 50 Shades of Grey

50 Shades of Grey is British-American erotic romantic drama film based on the International best selling novel of same name. But when makers asked for a release in India, it was not given a rating by the Censor Board, even after voluntary cuts by the distributor. At the end makers of the film decided not to release movie in India.

11. Unfreedom

The story revolves around a Muslim fundamentalist in New York who kidnaps a liberal Muslim scholar with an intent to kill, while a closeted lesbian in New Delhi kidnaps her bisexual lover with the intent to love. You may think that because of Public Outrage this movie was banned. But no, The film was denied a rating by the CBFC and the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal and they decided no one should watch this movie.

Raj Amit Kumar states that the Censor Board should rate or certify a movie, instead of banning and offering cuts. He also said that he would keep sending signed petitions to the Prime Minister and Censor Board, until there is a real change. The director is seeking support from people who believe in freedom of speech.

So this is a list of Indian Movies Banned in India. There are many Bollywood Films, Tamil Films and many other language movie which faced ban in certain states or area. Like Jodha Akbar was banned in Madhya Pradesh until Supreme Court ruled against it.

Interesting Facts About Indian Cinema - I

As Indian Cinema completes 100 years, we bring to you 50 most interesting facts about Bollywood that you had not heard of before.

1. The first motion picture in India was ‘The Wrestlers’ screened in 1899 a portrait photographer called Harischandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar.

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2. Ashok Kumar was a lab assistant in Bombay Talkies before he became an actor in 1936.

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3. Director Subhash Ghai made a cameo appearance in ‘Aradhana’ (1969), which he anyway does for all his films.

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4. Raj Thackeray wanted to make a film with Amitabh Bachchan in 2005.

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5. Sunil Dutt was much more than the suave hero, he was quite the Bollywood baddie! The actor played the role of a dacoit in 20 movies in his career.

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6. Waheeda Rahman played both mother and lover to Amitabh Bachchan. She played the love interest of Big B in ‘Adalat’ (1976) and mother in ‘Trishul’ (1978).

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7. Dimple was only sixteen years old when Raj Kapoor introduced her in ‘Bobby’ (1973). She also got married to Bollywood superstar Rajesh Khanna at the age of 16. Despite the enormous success of ‘Bobby’, she then took a sabbatical from acting to raise her children.

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8. ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ (1960) was a trilingual – with all scenes shot thrice in Hindi, Tamil and English. When the Tamil one flopped miserably, the English language one was aborted.

9. Raj Kapoor was superstitious and went off drinking as well as eating non-vegetarian food before the release of ‘Satyam Shivan Sundaram’ (1978).

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10. Dilip Kumar was offered a lead role in the international project ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962) by director David Lean. However for reasons unknown, the actor declined the offer. The role subsequently went to Egyptian actor Omar Sharif.

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Checkout Your Filmigyan with "The Bollywood Quiz"

Q.1  Subhash Ghai's first film as a director was...?

A. Karma

B. Kalicharan

C. Vidhaata

D. Hero

E. Pardes

Q.2  From where does Veeru propose to Basanti in Sholay?

A.  Top of a roof

B.  Top of a ladder

C.  Top of a hill

D.  Top of a water tank

E.  Top of a tree

Q.3  Aishwarya Rai was crowned Miss World in which year?

A.  1993

B.  1994

C.  1995

D.  1996

E.  1997

Q.4  Before Akshay Kumar became an actor, he worked as a...?

A.  Clerk

B.  Reporter

C.  Waiter

D.  Journalist

E.  Model

Q.5  Lata Mangeshkar made her debut in Hindi playback singing with the movie...?

A.  Andaaz

B.  Deewar

C.  Barsaat

D.  Aap ke Sewa Main

E.  None of these

Q.6  Who plays the blind friend in the 1964 Dosti?

A.  Mohan

B.  Dinu

C.  Ramu

D.  Shyamu

E.  Ramesh

Q.7  Nominated in the Best Foreign film catergory at the Oscars, Mother India lost to...?

A.  Casablanca

B.  Nights of Caberia 

C.  Gone With The Wind

D.  Dragons

E.  None of the above

Q.8  Which of these films was Ashutosh Gowariker's directorial debut?

A.  Lagaan

B.  Swades

C.  Pehla Nasha 

D.  Afsana Pyaar Ka

E.  Jung

Q.9  Which of these actors has never appeared in television advertisements?

A.  Govinda

B.  Hrithik Roshan

C.  Shah rukh khan

D.  Anil Kapoor

E.  Sanjay Dutt

Q.10 Which was the first film in which Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan worked together?

A.  Guddi

B.  Milli

C.  Ek Nazar

D.  Kabhi Kabhi

E.  None of the Above

Answers

   1.  B

   2.  D

   3.  B

   4.  C

   5.  D

   6.  A

   7.  B

   8.  C

   9.  D

  10. A 

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Lesser Known Facts About "The King Khan - Shahrukh Khan"

10 Facts about Shahrukh Khan which are interesting, unique and unknown. Read some more facts about Shahrukh Khan’s life. We all love SRK and his life story itself is inspiring and perfect for a blockbuster movie. Whenever Rags to riches will be told, name of Shahrukh Khan will be on top of that list. He is not only a very very successful actor but also  a successful businessman, producer, father and husband. So here are 10 Facts about Shahrukh Khan which will make you feel proud on being his fan.

 1. Shahrukh Khan’s fee may be now one of the highest in film industry but in his early days his fee was very modest. In fact for For Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na Shahrukh Khan got 25,000 rs. On opening day he even sold tickets at booking window of a cinema.

 2. Shahrukh Khan is second richest actor in the world. Yes you read it right, in The World. His net worth is 600 Million USD which equals to 3600 crore Rs. (1 USD = 60 Rs)

3. His first salary was 50 rs which he earned at a Pankaj Udhas concert in Delhi in the early 80s. With those money he went on to see the Taj Mahal in Agra.

4. During his struggling days, Shahrukh Khan ran a restaurant in Darya Ganj in Delhi.

5. When he was doing serials like Fauji and Circus in Delhi, he got calls from Hema Malini and Harry Baweja for movie role. SRK politely declined those offer as he was not interested in doing movies.

6. His father was one of the youngest Freedom Fighter of India. Though he tried a lot of business but failed every time. He even ran tea shop and than mess in National School of Drama in Delhi. It was there Shahrukh Khan met many great theatre artist and somehow got interested in acting.

7. His father died when he was 15 and mother died when he was 25. The death of his parents at an early age affected him greatly. He described these events as a motivator for his own work ethic.

8. Shahrukh Khan always talks about importance of education in life. He himself was an extraordinary student throughout his school and college life. He graduated from Hansraj college and then joined Jamia Milia University for PG in Mass Communication. In his school, St.Colombia, he was awarded the sword of honor, an annual award given to the student who best represented the spirit of the school.

9.  Shahrukh Khan Was Originally Named Abdul Rahman By His maternal Grand Mother (Naani). But his father did not like the name and changed it to Shahrukh Khan.

10. Starting out in Bollywood for a newbie is a difficult task. But did you know that Shah Rukh signed not one or two but shockingly five films back-to-back in one day before he started out his Bollywood career.

Interesting Facts About Indian Cinema

1. 'The Wrestlers', shot in 1899, was the first motion picture shot in India. However, the first wholly Indian-produced film was 'Raja Harishchandra', which was released in 1913.

2. In the 1970s, India cinema overtook America as the world's largest film producer and the term 'Bollywood' was coined.

3. Released in 1937, Kisan Kanya, a film about the plight of poor farmers, was the first Indian film in colour.

4. Actor Dilip Kumar, known as the 'Tragedy King', was offered the role of Sherif Ali in 'Lawrence of Arabia'. He declined the offer and the role went to Egyptian actor Omar Sharif (pictured).

5. Bollywood produces around 1000 films every year – almost double the output of Hollywood.

6. Two Bollywood songs 'Ye Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana' (1978) and 'Ae Nujawan Hai Sub' (1972) inspired The Black Eyed Peas' song 'Don't Phunk with My Heart'.

7. 'Indra Sabha', an opera about a prince's romance with a fairy, has an incredible 71 songs in it – the most in any Indian film.

8. 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' (The Brave Hearted Will Take Away The Bride) has run at a Mumbai cinema for around 1000 undeterred weeks. It is one of Bollywood's biggest films of all time.

9. Fatima Begum became Indian cinema's first female director in 1926 with Bulbul-e-Paristan.

10. Walk of the Stars in Bandra, Mumbai, honours Bollywood film stars. Many famous Indian actors are honoured with an autograph, tile or statue.

11. Films in Bollywood are produced in the following languages: Hindi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu.

12. Bollywood actor, producer and director Rakesh Roshan was shot by Mumbai gang members in 2000. He survived the attack.

13. The longest ever kiss in a Bollywood film stands at four minutes. Devika Rani and her real-life husband Himanshu Rai shared the embrace in the 1933 film Karma. The movie is also credited as having Bollywood's first song in English.

14. Dilip Kumar and Shahrukh Khan (left in picture below) have both won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor a record eight times. Amitabh Bachchan has the record for most nominations, with 30.

15. Superstar Salman Khan is reportedly the highest paid Bollywood star receiving 55 Crore (just under £6 million) for every film.

Interesting Facts of The Most Iconic Movie of Indian Cinema 'Sholay'

Forty years ago, Ramesh Sippy went on to make a movie starring Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan and Sanjeev Kumar. The film was named ‘Sholay'.  

Little did the people associated with the film know that ‘Sholay' was going to set a benchmark in the history of Indian cinema. The cult classic film went on to dazzle many generations of film lovers.

From songs to dialogues to characters to the action, everything about the film left a mark on the minds and hearts of the viewers. And even after forty years of its release, all the memories remain fresh like it happened just yesterday.

From the iconic characters like Gabbar Singh to Jai-Veeru's tale of friendship, the subtle love story to powerful dialogues, Sholay consisted of all the ingredients that made it one of the biggest Hindi films ever to screen in Bollywood.

So as the blockbuster movie is all set to celebrate its 40th anniversary, here we bring to you some interesting facts about ‘Sholay' which you may or may not know:

1. Did you know that late Amjad Khan was never the first choice for playing Gabbar Singh? The role was first offered to Danny Denzongpa. However, Danny turned the offer down as he was already busy with Feroz Khan's Dharmatma which was to be shot in Afghanistan at the same time.

2. We all remember the revenge seeking Thakur Baldev Singh, but most of us don't know Sippy was considering veteran actor Pran for the role. However, the role later went to Sanjeev Kumar, and there wouldn't have been a better choice than this as he did fair justice to the role of Thakur.

3. Amitabh-Jaya Bachchan and Dharmendra-Hema Malini are two of the most adored couples of B-town. But did you know both the couples were romantically involved during the making of Sholay? In fact, Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan had married just four months before the shooting of ‘Sholay' started, while Dharmendra married Hema five years after the release of the blockbuster movie.

 4. The famous Bachchan couple was expecting their first child Shweta during the shooting of ‘Sholay'. Jaya's pregnancy even delayed the shooting for several days. Interestingly, Jaya and Amitabh Bachchan were expecting their second child Abhishek Bachchan at the time of the release of ‘Sholay'.

5. The ‘dream girl' of Bollywood Hema Malini had several men going crazy for her in and out of the industry. One of them was the veteran actor Sanjeev Kumar, who had even proposed to her before the shooting of ‘Sholay' started.

6. Interestingly, Dharmendra was quite interested in playing the role of Thakur Baldev Singh. However, when the actor was informed about Sanjeev Kumar playing the role of Veeru opposite Hema Malini, Dharmendra gave up the idea of playing Thakur and went on to play Veeru because he too was wooing Hema Malini during those days.

7. Dharmendra was head over heels in love with ‘dream girl' Hema Malini so much that the actor reportedly used to pay the light boys to disrupt the shooting whenever a romantic sequence of the couple was being shot so that there could be several takes.

8. Sholay was first released on August 15, 1975, with a different climax. However, the film got an average response which prompted the film makers to re-think  the climax and go with the idea of killing Amitabh Bachchan's character of Jai. The idea just clicked and Sholay went on to break several records.

9. Remember the famous friendship song ‘Yeh Dosti Hum Nahi Todenge' starring Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra from the blockbuster movie? Well, the song took 21 days to shoot.

10. On April 17, 2015, Sholay was released in Pakistan for the first time. While the film was released by Geo films and Mandviwalla Entertainment jointly, its premiere was held in Karachi.