Spectre kissing scenes ordered to be shortened by Indian film censors

None of movies were typical Bond ones, but Spectre takes the cake for being the most personal of them all.

Elsewhere in Europe too Spectre has emerged as the top grosser. "Our work is for censoring the movie in accordance to the rating of the film so we've done that". Nihalani has been under fire for cutting Spectre's kissing scenes.

"This seems like a joke".

"Yes, this decision [to cut kissing scenes] was taken by Pahlaj Nihalani".

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Speaking at the pre-screening of the latest James Bond movie, Spectre, organised by the British Embassy and Premier Auto Services, she noted that the country's film industry had fallen on hard times.

"Just because I didn't succumb 2 #PahalajNihalani's likes & dislikes, I've never bn called 2 see a film in the revising committee". But the length of the kisses were found to be unnecessarily excessive. The erotic thriller Fifty Shades of Grey was banned in March, despite being edited to remove nudity and tone down sex scenes, after the board said the language was inappropriate.

"Another showed Craig with an ash pattern on his forehead, much like a Hindu holy man, while one compared bikini-clad Bond girl Ursula Andress with a "" girl in a sari.

In India, Spectre releases in four languages - English, Hindi, Tamil and Telegu and is expected to cross the Rs 100-crore box-office collection mark within the first week or 10 days of its India release. Even those who can't figure out his identity will be left cold as to what the goal of positioning the villain as the unstoppable, invincible force was, especially with the ease with which he gets taken down in the end. It's asserted the Censor Board said, "long kisses are not Indian". Directed by Sam Mendes, who comes from the drama background, he has made use of the theatrics of staging a play in the visual pattern of Spectre.

CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani was unavailable for comment. For instance, the vehicle on display in the exhibition was used in a auto chase sequence filmed in Rome. With the assistance of his friends back in the Secret Service organisation, Q (Ben Whishaw) and Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), he goes to meet White, his former nemesis, so that he can get more information about this outfit.