Bra Bra (Matt) Dekho? Censor Snips off Innerwear Shot

‘Baar Baar Dekho’ passes CBFC with ‘UA’ certificate but only after a shot of a brassiere was removed from the film!

Katrina Kaif and Sidharth Malhotra in Kala Chashma from Baar Baar Dekho. (Photo Courtesy: YouTube Screenshot)

The Siddharth Malhotra-Katrina Kaif starrer Baar Baar Dekho has been granted a ‘UA’ certificate by the Censor Board Of Film Certification(CBFC). But only after a shot of a brassiere was removed from the film. An angry member of the Baar Baar Dekho team expostulates:

Are we living in the Victorian era when women’s innerwear was never spoken of in public? Years ago in 1995 there was a bra shot featuring Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan. And <i>Baar Baar Dekho</i> is directed by a woman. So the chances of lingerie being used to titillate the audience are nil.

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Director of Baar Baar Dekho, Nitya Mehra poses with the clap board of film. (Photo Courtesy: Facebook/Baar Baar Dekho)

Apparently, the censor board refused to certify the film until the ‘offensive’ shot was removed. Another cut that the CBFC demanded was to do away with a naughty reference to Savita Bhabhi, the comic-book porn character whose sexual exploits are devoured on the internet by millions of her fans.

The CBFC asked the producers of <i>Baar Baar Dekho</i> to delete a reference to Savita Bhabhi. The name is used in a jokey light-hearted manner in the film. If a porn reference is objectionable then how come Sunny Leone’s name was used in A Flying Jatt?

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Katrina Kaif and Sidharth Malhotra in a still from Baar Baar Dekho. (Photo Courtesy: Facebook/ Baar Baar Dekho)

Contradictions apart, Baar Baar Dekho has now been certified by the CBFC with a ‘UA’ certificate – the bra visual and Savita Bhabhi reference duly knocked off.

Last week, a huge argument broke out at the Censor Board office when board members objected to a scene featuring a brassiere in the film directed by Nitya Mehra. The board members asked for the ‘offensive’ visual to be removed. But the producers decided to put up a fight. A source close to the development said, “The Censor Board objected to the shot of a bra. But the producers argued that there was a shot of a bra in Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol starrer Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, and no one objected. But the CBFC would not relent. The team had to cut the lingerie out.”

Katrina in a still from Baar Baar Dekho. (Photo Courtesy: erosnow.com)

Asks the source angrily, “Freaky Ali, which opens along with Baar Baar Dekho, features Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a salesperson for men’s lingerie. Are we to presume that it’s okay to show men’s underwear? But not okay to show women’s lingerie?”