The Great Condom Debacle
The Mighty Censor Board of India wants the word “condom” deleted from a scene in the upcoming movie Hello, where Gul Panag asks Sharman Joshi to use a condom before their apparent lovemaking scene. The word “condom” spoken by Gul has been chopped off, but the lovemaking scene has been retained. Confused? Wait there’s more. While the Government of India, for over two decades, has been actively promoting the use of condoms in print and television advertisements, the Censor Board will have none of it. Not sure if there is more to this piece of news, but it looks like saying “condom” on Indian screen is no longer acceptable! Tip: Pavan Jha
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
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Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
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Pankaj Advani
Revathy
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Partho Sen-Gupta
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lolz…..
maybe condom doesnt come under the definition of healthy entertainment…..
Condom bol..bindaas bol…..
NACO is even advertising condom ringtones and the Censor Board is back to its old ways…
Poor Condom,.
Nobody uses it!!!
WTF!!!! :D
Another bunch of dinosaurs, who need to be sent to Jurassic Park soon.
May be the Censor Board wants a Marathi word for Condom…else Raj Thakarey won’t let the film release in ‘his territory’…lest it hurts some sentiments.
Just makes me wonder what kind of dinosaurs we have in High places here.
A Labour Minister justifies workers lynching a manager to death, saying that they are just showing their anger and discontent. I wonder if he would allow his constituents to lynch him to show their discontent.
The Delhi CM, brushes off the murder of a young journalist, saying she was being adventurous by travelling in late hours. Goddamn it, she was not comming from a party, she was covering a news event and returning home late at night.
And of course the way the media stooped to all levels, to indulge in the gleeful character assassination of Arushi and her family, without any remorse.
Honestly i guess we are living in an age where all 4 pillars- executive, judiciary, legislature and media, are not just rotten, but stinking to the core.
There should be some other story behind it as many films have used this word before and censor can not object on the use of the word by a female character now.
In a film, Mallika Sherawat buys a packet from medical store when her man does not gather guts to do so.
If filmmakers want they will get green signal with little efforts to show history to censor board. Censor board can not change its policies daily. As it happens in court where old examples are quoted, same happens with such boards also.
There should be some other story.
lets wait.
@RK: True. Dunno why they cut it in this case. Though Khwaish was an A rated film, and I guess the producers wanted a U rating for this…
Here’s the condom song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTLj_3R0-2g
a wonderful, educational and completely non-judgemental video promoting condom use.
bastards should be castrated….your balls are too adult for our audiences…..makes me angry more than anything else…
@dabba
it was indeed worth watching…
In the novel, when the girl asks the guybefore an impromptu love making session, do you have a condom, he replies, yes..we always live on hope. It was such a funny dialogue. It is a pity that the effect the author wanted to create has been nullified by the censor board.
Well,
Governnment spending so much money on “Condom gyan”, y dont they fix vending machines on streets or public toilets. This will help cause of this campaign.
Its imp..SEE so many teenagers indulging in sex are well aware of safe sex..but will they check a local medical store wid der child like face asking for a flavoured, extra large jack or jill condom.
Lots question to be answered guys..its not the government..it the way of our living…and isntitutions to be balmes
OR
Stay abstinance!!!Government must seriously promote this.
Condom, Vondom ki baaat chodo. I think by the reports comming out, Hello seems to have joined Kidnap and Drona in the classics list. Another big budgeted DUD from Bollywood.
I had reports coming in from abroad that Call from God has been scrapped off and also the Condom scene is intact. So, what do we have here? Different censor policies????
@Ratnakar: It had to be(the movie being a dud). When the novel itself is not that good which you are adapting for the movie, then how can the movie be good?
I have some expectations from the 3 Idiots(decent novel, decent director) but Hello had the word dud written right from the word go..!
BTW, in the film ‘Life In a Metro’, Sharaman Joshi’s (again !!) girlfriend asks him if he has a ‘topi. He is clueless. She exasperatedly says, ‘condom’. How did that escape the censor board’s notice? Careless fellows!! Don’t they know it corrupted thousands of youth in India?