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HT<\/i> reports<\/a> that the I&B ministry has just given the go-ahead to the producers of a film called The Indian Summer<\/i> to shoot in India. However, after going through the script, it wants four scenes deleted from the film—these show “a kiss between Nehru and Edwina; a dancing scene; one where Nehru says ‘I Love You’; and a scene showing them in bed.”<\/p>\n

Normally, when two people have an affair, there is kissing, there are confessions of love (or lust), and there is carnal action. I don’t see the point of pussyfooting around all this—an affair without these would not be an affair, so why should a film about an affair have to avoid these?<\/p>\n

The government also insists that the film carry a disclaimer that it is a work of fiction. Why not keep those scenes then?<\/p>\n

The ministry says it is doing this because it doesn’t want anyone to “show Nehru in a poor light.” That is bizarre: I don’t think his alleged affair with Edwina shows him in a poor light—the guy was human, after all. (Most Indian men would probably think more highly of him because he scored with a white chick, but leave that aside.) <\/p>\n

And even if it did show Nehru in a poor light, so what?<\/p>\n

Anyway, as revenge on the Indian government for this preemptive censorship, I suggest that the producers get Salman Khan to play Nehru, and have him sing a Himesh song as Edwina runs around a tree. That will show them.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

And for what I think of the I&B ministry, see point 3 of this old wishlist<\/a> of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HT<\/i> reports<\/a> that the I&B ministry has just given the go-ahead to the producers of a film called The Indian Summer<\/i> to shoot in India. However, after going through the script, it wants four scenes deleted from the film—these show “a kiss between Nehru and Edwina; a dancing scene; one where Nehru says ‘I Love You’; and a scene showing them in bed.”<\/p>\n

Normally, when two people have an affair, there is kissing, there are confessions of love (or lust), and there is carnal action. I don’t see the point of pussyfooting around all this—an affair without these would not be an affair, so why should a film about an affair have to avoid these?<\/p>\n

The government also insists that the film carry a disclaimer that it is a work of fiction. Why not keep those scenes then?<\/p>\n

The ministry says it is doing this because it doesn’t want anyone to “show Nehru in a poor light.” That is bizarre: I don’t think his alleged affair with Edwina shows him in a poor light—the guy was human, after all. (Most Indian men would probably think more highly of him because he scored with a white chick, but leave that aside.) <\/p>\n

And even if it did show Nehru in a poor light, so what?<\/p>\n

Anyway, as revenge on the Indian government for this preemptive censorship, I suggest that the producers get Salman Khan to play Nehru, and have him sing a Himesh song as Edwina runs around a tree. That will show them.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

And for what I think of the I&B ministry, see point 3 of this old wishlist<\/a> of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9,3,15,4,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nPreemptive Censorship - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/preemptive-censorship\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Preemptive Censorship - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HT reports that the I&B ministry has just given the go-ahead to the producers of a film called The Indian Summer to shoot in India. 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