Dear CBFC, in the age of Internet how relevant is it to censor things?

Ladies and gentlemen, ‘Lunch’, ‘Indian Figure’, ‘Sarkaar’ are now bad words and can have a bad influence on the youth of this country. Or so thinks our honourable Censor board which decided to silence these words from director Pan Nalin’s ‘Angry Indian Goddesses’.

India’s first female buddy film has seven leading ladies on a bachelorette trip to Goa where over a period of time, secrets tumble out, old rivalries are sorted out and personal problems are addressed. The trip turns out to be a life changing one for the women in more ways than one.

The conversations are free flowing throughout the film but when you watch the film on the big screen, there are abrupt silences in between the dialogues at regular intervals and some hamper the film’s narrative even. Like the time when the girls are gaping at Jo (Amrit Maghera) dancing at the backyard of their house and in between discuss butts and the typical Indian figure. Those words are repeated often in that short scene but they are all muted and what ultimately is shown on the big screen does not make sense. We, as audience, are left to assume and guess.

Similarly, a scene where Mad (Anushka Manchanda) places a Kali’s poster at the corner of their room, the image of the goddess is blurred. Instead you are left wondering why the camera is focusing on Anushka’s posterior. It’s only later when she is talking about the Goddess and the camera pans over the blurred image one more time that you realise what the Censor board has done.

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