CBFC Cuts Kashmir Reference From Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible - Fallout

It seems that the makers of Mission: Impossible - Fallout have landed themselves in hot water. The makers of the movie released on July 27 in India were asked to remove the references to Kashmir by India's Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the movie had four cuts/modifications made by the CBFC.

According to the CBFC certificate, the board had asked the makers of the movie, starring Tom Cruise as intelligence agent Ethan Hunt,  to cut the title before the climax that identified the place "India-occupied Kashmir". Moreover, a map of the Indian subcontinent that misrepresented the boundaries of the state of Jammu and Kashmir was also removed. The makers were also asked to add a disclaimer of fiction that "the film neither intends to hurt the feelings/sentiments nor means to defame persons of any region, community, nationality, religion or organization".

But mentions of Nubra valley and the Siachen glacier in Ladakh by Rebecca Fergusson's Ilsa Faust have not been deleted. Other than this, the final sequence, set in Kashmir, was shot in picturesque locations of New Zealand. On this, the director said, "I had wanted to shoot in India. I went and scouted there extensively... It was a pretty crazy sequence. So while we were shooting in New Zealand, we still had this (feel)... We liked the flavor of India, so (somehow) we managed to put it in (the film)".

Mission: Impossible - Fallout is the sixth installment in the action franchise which has made the biggest opening day and opening weekend for a Cruise film in India by minting Rs 56.1 crore.

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