Aamir’s PK continues to enjoy a strong run at the box office in India, recently becoming the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time. PHOTO: PK MOVIE FACEBOOK PAGE
Haider was found to be “against the ideology of Pakistan”, while a censor board official remarked that “certain Hindi words can have adverse effects on our culture”.
Yet, Waar -- a movie with plenty of gore and cursing -- was given a U (Universal) rating by the censor board, deeming it suitable for people of all ages.
On the other side of the border, top officials of India’s Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) were replaced with officials who support the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, leading to an overtly politically influenced film certification body.
Thankfully, owing to the 18th amendment in Pakistan, such influence is diminished since the formation of provincial censor boards.
However, the situation gets really interesting, and sometimes ironic, when different censor boards give separate verdicts on a film.
The Express Tribune got hold of CBFC's and Sindh Board of Film Certification (SBFC) excision notes on the film PK and it seems filmgoers in Islamabad saw a relatively more censored version of the film than those in Sindh.
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It seems Aamir Khan did manage to create some stir in Pakistani censor boards, if not as much as he did back in India.
SBFC
1) “Background music in the song where “Matam” shown sound erased”
2)“Background sound in all “Dancing Car” shot sound erased”
CBFC
1) “Very first scene of Aamir Khan in which his lower part is naked blurred”
2) “Two lip kissing scenes wherever occur in the film excised”
3) “Slang word ‘lul’ wherever occur erased”
4) “Voices of Azaan wherever occur erased”
5) “The sentence ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jay Ho’ wherever occur in the film erased
6) “The reference of Mehmood Ghaznavi, Kamal Pasha and Pervaiz Khan removed
7) “The sentence ‘Musalman Bomb phaaraingay’ erased”
8) “The word ‘Apne Khuda’ muted”
It is pertinent to mention here that Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa still hasn’t formed its own censor board and gets their certifications from CBFC.
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There should be one censor board in Pakistan.
I saw it islamabad ! None of the above mentioned scenes were censored !
So all references to muslims in the movie has been censored and made it to look like purely against Hinduism. Now I understand why in became a superhit in pakistan.. ha ha .. You guys are amazing.
What has been censored doing ???? nothing.. each and every thing that was mentioned to be censored i saw it in the movie in karachi cinemas. and i saw the movie twice in karachi cinemas. What our censor board doing??? HUH naam ka hai bus.....
Looks like the PK censor board dialed a wrong number!
i find your article contradiciting with the facts , the censoring seems to be minimilistic .I find nothing wrong with removing most of these sounds or images
The more bureaucrats you have, the more nonsense you will get. After all, the main purpose of every bureaucracy is to protect their jobs, all other purposes are secondary.