{"id":72879,"date":"2025-07-14T22:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/14\/indian-film-board-criticised-for-cutting-superman-kisses"},"modified":"2025-07-14T22:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:42:14","slug":"indian-film-board-criticised-for-cutting-overly-sensual-superman-kisses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72879","title":{"rendered":"Indian film board criticised for cutting \u2018overly sensual\u2019 Superman kisses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers complain that board allows violence and misogyny in Indian films but not a smooch in a Hollywood release<\/p>\n<p>As Indian cinemagoers watched the latest Superman film, many noticed something was amiss. On two occasions as the superhero leaned in for a kiss with Lois Lane, the film suddenly jumped forward, cutting to the aftermath of an embrace.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s censor board had deemed the kissing scenes, including a 33-second smooch, to be \u201coverly sensual\u201d for Indian audiences and demanded they be cut from the film before its cinematic release.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/14\/indian-film-board-criticised-for-cutting-superman-kisses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers complain that board allows violence and misogyny in Indian films but not a smooch in a Hollywood releaseAs Indian cinemagoers watched the latest Superman film, many noticed something was amiss. On two occasions as the superhero leaned in for a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,71,69,62,61,3362,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-superman","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72880,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72879\/revisions\/72880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}