India's Central Board Film Certification refuse to show New James Bond movie Spectre kiss Scenes

The fact that the new James Bond movie was given some additional edits in India is not surprising on the face of it. However, the reason for those edits is more than a little surprising.

In the global world we live in, it’s not uncommon to see something considered innocuous in one place handled very differently somewhere else.
It happens a lot when pop culture is exported from one country to another. India’s Central Board of Film Certification has deemed the kissing scenes in Spectre to be "too excessive" and has thus, removed half of them from the film.

They have also removed the film’s one PG-13 acceptable f-bomb as well as an uttering of the word "asshole." This has earned the film the U/A rating, which is more or less on par with the MPAA rating of PG. India does not have a rating option between the U/A and Adults Only.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, this removal of the scenes has led to a backlash on the internet’s home for backlash, Twitter.

The hashtag #SanskariJamesBond, or Loyal James Bond, is now your home for all your favorite James Bond jokes, shifted into Indian culture in order to be more in line with what the Film Board would apparently like to see.

This isn't the first time that the CBFC has tried to make modifications to western films. A couple of years ago, they wanted to remove nude scenes from David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

It was eventually decided to simply not release the film there at all. Hey, does India just have a problem with Daniel Craig?

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