Films Banned/Censored in India (Nationwide/Regional)
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- DirectorMrinal SenStarsKali BannerjeeManju DeySmriti BiswasA poor Chinese hawker, Wang Lu, sells his merchandise, China silk in the streets of Calcutta.
- DirectorM.S. SathyuStarsBalraj SahniA.K. HangalGeeta KakIn post-partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.
- DirectorGulzarStarsSuchitra SenSanjeev KumarOm ShivpuriHotel manager J.K. (Sanjeev Kumar) works there. One day, he bravely steps in to save Aarti, the drunken daughter of a politician (Suchitra Sen). Aarti and J.K. have a small ceremony to celebrate their marriage after falling in love. The married pair decides to separate after a few years because of several issues. Aarti and J.K. eventually cross paths again when she has achieved political success. Both of them sense a connection despite their distance, but Aarti is reluctant to speak up for fear of having her reputation ruined and endangering her profession. However, when the opposing party conducts a rally to disparage and humiliate Aarti Devi, When she gets there, she informs the populace and voters of her decision to leave her husband and family in order to serve this nation's citizens. The public respects her and is deeply moved by her voice and selflessness. J.K. arrives there as well and offers her support; she is overjoyed and moves on. She is elected and goes on to have a fulfilling life.
- DirectorAmrit NahataStarsShabana AzmiRaj BabbarChaman BaggaThe story of an evil politician.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSatyajit RayAn educational and controversial look into the Kingdom of Sikkim through the eyes of the greatest film maker from the Indian Sub-Continent, Satyajit Ray
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHarrison FordKate CapshawKe Huy QuanIn 1935, Indiana Jones is tasked by Indian villagers with reclaiming a rock stolen from them by a secret cult beneath the catacombs of an ancient palace.
- DirectorMadan JoshiStarsDimple KapadiaShekhar SumanSudha ChandranDimple seduces a married Shekhar Suman in a damned sexy song.
- DirectorR.K. SelvamaniStarsBhanumathi RamakrishnaPrashanthRojaRaja, a rich lad falls in love with Chembaruthi, a maid who works in his grandmother's house. His family rejects their love due to the social differences. What will he do to marry his sweetheart?
- DirectorShekhar KapurStarsSeema BiswasNirmal PandeyRajesh VivekThe story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994.
- DirectorMira NairStarsNaveen AndrewsSarita ChoudhuryIndira VarmaTwo female friends become sexual rivals at maturity.
- DirectorDeepa MehtaStarsShabana AzmiNandita DasKarishma JhalaniTwo women who are abandoned by their husbands find love and solace in each other.
- DirectorAnurag KashyapStarsKay Kay MenonAditya SrivastavJoy FernandesKidnapping plot gone wrong when four friends plans to kidnap their own friend who accidentally got killed.
- DirectorAmitoj MannStarsAmitoj MannBabbu MannAanandee TripathiSet against the backdrop of the 1984 Sikh genocide, Hawayein is a 2003 film directed by Ammtoje Mann. The film is based on some real-life events and features the impact of Operation Bluestar and the subsequent assassination of Indira Gandhi on people's lives in Punjab. Hawayein depicts the story of Sarabjeet and how he became one of the most wanted terrorists of India.
- DirectorRakesh SharmaA study of politics of hate, examining the rise and entrenchment of right-wing politics in India, by documenting the 2002 Gujarat riots and their aftermath. It specifically examines political tendencies reminiscent of early Nazi Germany.
- DirectorPartho Sen-GuptaStarsAniket VishwasraoNishikant KamatTannishtha ChatterjeeA collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
- DirectorAnurag KashyapStarsKay Kay MenonPawan MalhotraAditya SrivastavA film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.
- DirectorShonali BoseStarsKonkona Sen SharmaYashpal SharmaBrinda KaratAmu is the story of an Indian American woman who returns to India. The film takes a dark turn as Kaju learns that a horrifying genocide that took place twenty years ago turns out to hold the key to her mysterious origins.
- DirectorDeepa MehtaStarsLisa RayJohn AbrahamSeema BiswasSet in colonial India against Gandhi's rise to power, it's the story of 8-year-old Chuyia, who is widowed and sent to a home to live in penitence; once there, Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents.
- DirectorQaushiq MukherjeeStarsAnubrata BasuJoyraj BhattacharyaRituparna SenAfter Nihilistic rapper Gandu steals from his mother's lover, he embarks on a drug-fueled rampage with a rickshaw puller in this abstract film.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsDaniel CraigRooney MaraChristopher PlummerJournalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for 40 years by young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander.
- DirectorVimukthi JayasundaraStarsSudip MukherjeePaoli DamAnubrata BasuIn Calcutta, Rahul an architect is reunited with his girlfriend, Paoli, who has long awaited his homecoming. Both set out to find Rahul's brother, who is said to have gone mad and who lives in the forest and sleeps in the trees.
- DirectorJayan CherianStarsKallen PokkudanSarithaPrakash BareA band of displaced untouchables in Western Ghats of India embrace Buddhism in order to escape from caste oppression.
- DirectorAarun NagarStarsAarun NagarSurendra PalRavi Verma
- DirectorCallum MacraeStarsRufus SewellBashana AbeywardeneVany VijiNo Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka is an investigative documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
- DirectorRavinder RaviStarsRaj DhaliwalYaad DhaliwalRaj KakraBased on historical events, Kaum De Heere focuses on the militant bodyguards who carried out the assassination of the Indian Prime Minister in 1984.
- DirectorSam Taylor-JohnsonStarsDakota JohnsonJamie DornanJennifer EhleLiterature student Anastasia Steele's life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey.
- DirectorFaisal SaifStarsSmita GondkarShakti KapoorSameer Khan
- DirectorRaj Amit KumarStarsVictor BanerjeeAdil HussainBhanu UdayA lesbian daughter fights off an arranged marriage in India while a religious fundamentalist targets an anti-extremist scholar in New York.
- DirectorLeslee UdwinStarsAsha DeviBadri SinghSatendraThe life and death of Jyoti Singh, an Indian medical student whose violation and murder by gang rapists exposed the violent misogyny of Indian society.
- DirectorNaresh s GargStarsRaj KakraJonita DodaNitu PandherWhen everything is against you
- DirectorSukhjinder SheraStarsNav BajwaSonpreet JawandaGuggu Gill
- DirectorSantosh BabusenanSatish BabusenanStarsK. KaladharanNeha MahajanAkram MohammedGautam, a lonely old writer, comes face to face with the seductive Vishaya and the mysterious young man Rahul. A series of events are unleashed which make the old writer question every belief he has held about himself.
- DirectorChandra Prakash DwivediStarsSunny DeolSakshi TanwarRavi KishanA Sanskrit priest decides to take matters in n his hand when the locals of holy town Banaras stars to lure foreign tourists with fake spiritual gurus.
- DirectorKanjibhai RathodStarsDwarkadas Narendas SampatManeklal PatelHomi MasterREMARKS. THE FILM WAS BANNED FOR POLITICAL REASONS, AND LATER RE-RELEASED AS DHARMA VIJAY. (1922)
- DirectorK. SubramaniamStarsS.D. SubbalakshmiPapanasam SivanBaby SarojaA spirited contribution to the Independence movement, deploying Gandhian themes. Sambu Sastry (Sivan) is portrayed as the Gandhi of Tamil Nadu, sitting on a dais spinning with a charkha. The film tells of Sastry the Brahmin priest and his daughter Savitri (Subbulakshmi). It opens with Harijans waiting in front of a closed temple during a cyclone. Sastry is punished for sheltering them and he goes to Madras. The main plot focuses on daughter Savitri, married to the evil Sridharan (Mahadevan) who prefers to live in 'Western' luxury in Calcutta and mistreats his wife. Sastry, who sells his property to pay for the dowry, finds himself on the streets while his abandoned daughter, who returns to find her ancestral home gone, gives birth to a daughter Charu (Saroja) in a free hospital. She abandons her child at the feet of her father. He thereafter, together with the Harijan Nallan, embarks on Gandhian social uplift programmes including picketing liquor shops. Savitri becomes the wealthy Uma Rani, devoting herself to charity. In her new guise she rejects her husband who sues for the restoration of his 'marital rights'.
- DirectorRon HowardStarsTom HanksAudrey TautouJean RenoA murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
- DirectorPrakash JhaStarsAmitabh BachchanSaif Ali KhanManoj BajpayeeThe decision by India's supreme court to establish caste-based reservations for jobs in education causes conflict between a teacher and his mentor.
- DirectorMani ShankarStarsBobby DeolAjay DevgnSanjay DuttTarun Chauhan, a rookie army officer undergoes ups and downs in his mission and learns the true meaning of 'war' to overcome his weaknesses.
- DirectorJeetu AroraGurmeet Ram Rahim SinghStarsGurmeet Ram Rahim SinghDaniel KalebFlora SainiGuru Ji is a social reformer who works to help people fight against social evils.
- DirectorSharique MinhajStarsMukesh AhujaIshrat AliAlizaRahul Mehta lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his widower dad, Tusshar, in Mumbai, and comes from a business family. His father has arranged his marriage with Meghna, who also lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her parents, who approve of Rahul. But when Meghna finds out that Rahul really loves Saveen, the daughter of Imran Jafri from Ahmedabad, she decides to step aside and let the lovers be together. Rahul offers to escort Saveen back home by Sabarmati Express with her dad's permission. At Godhra railway station, their train is set afire by Islamic extremists, and they take shelter at Payal's, a journalist with NTA, who is the girlfriend of Rahul's friend, Adarsh, also a journalist. It is here that differences will arise between Rahul and Saveen - differences that may end their romance and change their lives forever.
- DirectorKunal KohliStarsAamir KhanKajolRishi KapoorA sweet blind girl Zooni meets a flirty Rehan. She ignores her friends' warnings. It's her time to discover life. Is she making the right love choice?
- DirectorRahul DholakiaStarsNaseeruddin ShahCorin NemecSarika ThakurA parsi family struggles to find thier son in a genocide carried out by vested interests outfits during 2002, commonly known as Gujarat riots which broke out after the Godhra Train Burning incident. During riots more than 790 Muslim and 289 Hindus died and around 300 people missing in the Indian state of Gujarat.
- DirectorNandita DasStarsInaamulhaqNassarShahana GoswamiChronicles the devastating impact on vulnerable Muslims in Gujarat after riots.
- DirectorSanjay Leela BhansaliStarsDeepika PadukoneRanveer SinghShahid KapoorSet in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar.
- DirectorDeepesh TStarsHoney RoseSunny WayneV.K. PrakashA Convent in a scenic high range. A rugged mother superior of the convent. The inmates, Sister Elsitta and Sister Jaseentha, percieive Jesus Christ in two ideological extremes. The abrasion of fantasy and reality augments the contention between them. The clergy are the only male intervention in their life.
- DirectorAshutosh GowarikerStarsHrithik RoshanAishwarya Rai BachchanSonu SoodA sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodha.
- DirectorJagdish A. SharmaStarsKamal Rashid KhanGracy SinghHrishitaa BhattRaja arrives in Mumbai looking for a job but ends up killing the brother of a local drug dealer. Realising the corrupt nature of politics, he goes on a killing spree and kills ten people in 24 hours.
- DirectorMandeep BenipalStarsSunny Gill AmbersariyaGurpreet BhanguTalwinder BhullarCanadian Student Sharon Gill comes to India for her research on the topic "why minority was at war in Punjab"? During her journey she meets a former militant Kartar Singh Baaz who is in jail. Bass informs her that he was very good hockey player and his only dream was to play for India, but prevailing circumstances forced him and many other Sikh youngsters like him to join militant movement.
- DirectorNiharika SahniRai Yuvraj BainsStarsBinnu DhillonSardar SohiMehra BhanuShriGangter Makes His Illitrate Son Complete His Matriculate in 6 Months
- DirectorGurmeet Ram Rahim SinghStarsMuntazir AhmadCharanpreet InsanHoneypreet InsanMSG 2 The Messenger is based on true events of Dera Sacha Sauda in years 2000-2001. Although the main story line is true, action & comedy is added for entertainment. Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan plays plays to be a warrior fighting against the wild & primitive lifestyle of tribal and succeeding in turning them into civilized human beings.
- DirectorApurba Kishore BirStarsArif ZakariaPuneet SikkaAdil HussainNanak Shah Fakir is a biographical film on the life and teachings of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak Dev.
- DirectorAkashdeep SabirStarsBoman IraniVir DasNeha DhupiaTwo friends and their sweet and endearing misadventures and one of these misadventures sees them land in the middle of a kidnapping investigation.
- DirectorK. Jyothi PandianStarsCharlieLaxmi
- DirectorSohan RoyStarsVinay RaiJoshua Fredric SmithMegha BurmanAfter many years two mariners return to homeland with the hope of a new beginning, little did they know about a disaster that would change their destiny.
- DirectorShoojit SircarStarsNargis FakhriJohn AbrahamRaashi KhannaAn Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.
- DirectorSantosh SivanStarsSugandha GargStar S KaranKarunasA look at the Sri Lankan conflict through the experiences of a group of teenagers.
- DirectorAnil MehtaStarsMadhuri DixitDarshan JariwalaRaghubir YadavDia's dance teacher is dying. She returns to the town where she learnt to live and dance and most importantly to save the endangered Ajanta theatre.
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsPatrick SwayzePauline CollinsOm PuriAn American doctor, a British nurse, and an illiterate Indian farmer unite to transform a Calcutta ghetto in this uplifting, inspirational movie starring Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins.
- DirectorSuman MukhopadhyayStarsKamalika BanerjeeDibyendu BhattacharyaJoyraj BhattacharyaFyataroo: Flying human beings; Choktor: Black Magic sect Bhodi, the head of the Choktors, initiates a total war against the ruling communists of West Bengal, India. Fyataroos join hands with Choktors. Advised by Calcutta's progenitors Dandabayash (ageless primordial talking crow) and an Indo-colonial half-breed Begum Johnson(1732-1818) erupt a historic insurrection. They jointly launch guerrilla attacks against the Government. Skulls dance in crematoria and flying-discs flutter in the skies and cry anarchy, resident ghosts gossip and prattle, and the police is in total confusion. Government is forced to surrender and offer a peace proposal to the joint force. The film dissects almost everything wrong in the city with a cinematic knife sharpened on trenchant farce and fantasy. It is an anarchist film.