Lipstick Under My Burkha, which depicts the secret world, including the sex lives, of four small-town Indian women, was released at the weekend after months of wrangling with the country’s notoriously prudish censors. The decision, which sparked opprobrium inside India and abroad, was overturned by an appeals board in April, clearing the film for its summer release. “The censors might not hear about it, but women are also discussing these topics amongst themselves,” another filmgoer, Priti, said. That could mean further clashes with the film censorship board, whose decisions have increasingly been the source of scrutiny and public backlash. In 2016, censors wanted a film about the drug epidemic in Punjab edited to remove any references to the state.

Source: The Guardian July 23, 2017 10:30 UTC