Shocking: Baahubali 2 Gets An  ‘Adult’ Censor Certification In Singapore

S S Rajamouli’s mythological epic Baahubali  is making boxoffice history across the world. In Singapore the film gets a  severely limited audience .

And with reason.

The  Singapore censor board has granted Baahubali 2 : The Conclusion an  ‘NC16’  certification which means the film is not accessible to any viewership under the age of 16.

Says Pahlaj Nihalani,the censor chief in India, “We granted Baahubali 2 The Conclusion  a ‘UA’ with virtually no cuts. In Singapore they  found Baahubali to be too violent. The war scenes specially of soldiers being beheaded, was taken to be excessively gruesome by Singapore censor board.In many countries of Asia and Europe Bollywood films get a more adult censor certificate than we do in India.”

Nihalani admits  this discrepancy has to do partly with cultural and partly with practical reasons. “Our mythology and religious scriptures have  a lot of violent images of rakshasas being beheaded,etc. So our children  grow up hearing these tales of violence.They are not scared by mythological mayhem. Also, in India censorship is about pacifying sentiments rather than doing the right things.If we cut one shot of a beheading we are branded anti-religious. If we shorten the  duration of a kiss we are prudes.And if we delete a shot of  boy masturbating another boy(in Moonlight) we are branded homophobic.”