The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is not allowed to enter India, because she shows her buttocks. The film got censored and banned by India’s Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
New Delhi / NationalTurk – Indians won’t see “The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo” after India’s Central Board of Film Certification found many scenes oh the film abusive and decided to blur them.
Sony Pictures decided then not to release its blockbuster movie in India after censors demanded that scenes showing “bare bottoms” be blurred. The much-awaited Daniel Craig starrer The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo won’t be seeing an India release as the film’s director David Fincher has personally refused to cut some scenes as specified by India’s Central Board of Film Certification.
India censors The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Sony Pictures stand up against it
The Hollywood film starring Daniel Craig about a journalist’s search for a woman missing for 40 years was due to be released on February 10, but it ran into problems with India’s CBFC. Over 1,700 foreign films are released in India every year after passing certification tests by India’s powerful censor board.
“Bare bottom and bare-breast scenes are not allowed in India,” J.P. Singh, an official at CBFC, told NationalTurk. “We stand up to several sex scenes in ‘The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo’ and wanted them to be blurred.” announced the reason behind the censorship.
Sony Pictures in India acknowledged in a statement sent to AFP on Monday its response and stated that Sony would not compromise on the content of the film, which has grossed 185 million dollars globally.
“The Censor Board has adjudged the film unsuitable for public viewing in its unaltered form,” the statement read.
“And while we are committed to maintaining and protecting the vision of the director ( david fincher), we will, as always, respect the guidelines set by the board.” The movie directed by David Fincher, whose previous hits include “Fight Club” and “The Social Network”, is the first US interpretation of a hugely popular book series by late Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.
Indians won’t see these scenes from The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo :
The scenes in question include two lovemaking scenes between the film’s principal female lead Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) and Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig); a lesbian fingering scene featuring Lisbeth; a scene where Lisbeth is fiercely raped and savagely tortured.
In a follow-up scene, she tortures her tormentor as a video of her being assaulted plays in the background as payback or revenge.
Indians will see the movie eventually, as piracy is common in India like simians on the streets. Illegal copies of nearly every Hollywood movie can be found on every street corner in India.
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