There have been some Bollywood movies which got embroiled into controversies and eventually got a ban on their release because they dealt with bold scenes, abusive language or sensitive subject matter. Here we bring to you list of Bollywood movies which were banned by Censor Board in India.
Water
Water is a Canadian film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, with screenplay by Anurag Kashyap. It is set in 1938 backdrop and explores the lives of widows at an ashram in Varanasi. It got banned by Censor Board because it covers controversial subjects such as misogyny and ostracism.
Urf Professor
Urf Professor was Directed by Pankaj Advani and starred Manoj Pahwa, Antara Mali and Sharman Joshi. This film had black comedy and bold and vulgar scenes due to which it got banned.
Unfreedom
Unfreedom is a drama film by Raj Amit Kumar, which dealt with the lesbian love story entangled within a Muslim fundamentalist terrorism-related angle.
Sins
Sins is a controversial Bollywood film directed and produced by Vinod Pande. The film involves a Catholic priest who is romantically involved with a young woman. The film was protested against by those that felt it was a negative portrayal of Catholicism and indecent.
The Pink Mirror
Indian Censor Board banned Sridhar Rangayan’s film on Indian transsexuals. The censor board cited that the film was ‘vulgar and offensive’.The film still remains banned in India, but has screened at numerous festivals all over the world.
Parzania
The movie was directed by Rahul Dholakia and the film featured Naseeruddin Shah and Sarika in the lead roles. The film is inspired by the true story of a ten-year-old Parsi boy, Azhar Mody. It was based on communal riots in Gujarat of 2002 and thus was thought to hurt the image of Gujarat and thus got banned.
Paanch
Paanch is a crime thriller movie Directed by Anurag Kashyap which never releasd in India because of violence, the depiction of drug abuse and bad language.
Kama Sutra : A Tale of Love
The film was Directed by Mira Nair. And it was subsequently banned in India because of the erotic scenes that contained heterosexual as well as homosexual elements.
Inshallah, Football
Inshallah, Football is a documentary film by Ashvin Kumar about an aspiring footballer who was denied the right to travel abroad on the pretext that his father was a militant. Because of sensitive subject movie got banned.
Fire
This romantic drama film was Written and Directed by Deepa Mehta and Starred Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. It was one of the first films in India to explicitly show homosexual relations between sister-in-laws.