{"id":25583,"date":"2011-08-15T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T10:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25583"},"modified":"2011-08-15T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T10:13:09","slug":"india-controversial-film-censored-in-three-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25583","title":{"rendered":"India: Controversial film censored in three states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The release of Amitabh Bachchan\u2019s controversial new film, Aarakshan, which focuses on students benefiting from <a title=\"Index on Censorship: India\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/india\/\">India\u2019s<\/a> quota system for Dalits (untouchables), has been met with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/news\/worldwide\/south-asia\/protests-over-bollywood-film-about-caste-quotas\">protests and criticism <\/a>from groups representing low-caste Hindus.\u00a0Lawmakers in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Andhra Pradesh made an initial decision to block the release of the film, following the public\u2019s reaction. Officials in <a href=\"http:\/\/daily.bhaskar.com\/article\/PUN-NEWS-aarakshan-to-sceen-in-punjab-state-lifts-ban-2356383.html\">Punjab<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/Andhra-lifts-ban-on-Aarakshan\/Article1-733032.aspx\">Andhra Pradesh<\/a> decided instead to release a censored version of the feature, removing any scenes that would illicit anger from citizens. In <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/lucknow\/Aarakshan-ban-makes-pirates-smile\/articleshow\/9605074.cms\">Uttar Pradesh<\/a>, the ban is still in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The release of Amitabh Bachchan\u2019s controversial new film, Aarakshan, which focuses on students benefiting from India\u2019s quota system for Dalits (untouchables), has been met with\u00a0protests and criticism from groups representing low-caste Hindus.\u00a0Lawmakers in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Andhra Pradesh made an initial decision to block the release of the film, following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[3645,3644,3646,377,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25588,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25583\/revisions\/25588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}