Subhash K Jha (DNA; May 6, 2015)

As of now, all references to caste, community and creed -- good or bad -- are prohibited from being used in film, as per the guidelines of the Central Board for Film Certification (also known as the Censor Board), which has asked the makers of Bombay Velvet to remove the word ‘dhobi’ from a song in the film.

While this isn’t new — Shah Rukh Khan was asked to remove the word ‘Barber’ from his film’s title, eventually releasing it as Billu because The Salon and Beauty Parlour associations were up in arms against the movie’s title — people routinely find references objectionable. “In fact, Aamir Khan’s Dhobi Ghat had to get a clearance from the dhobi community before it could be called that,” says a source from the censor board.

God Also gets the cut
Also deleted in Bombay Velvet by the censor board is a reference to God in a song where the lover places his beloved above God. “We know songs in the past like Khuda bhi aasman se jab zameen par dekhta hoga mere mehboob ko kissne banaya sochta hoga’ were accepted in the past. But we’re now in over-sensitive times. So no suppression of God by any human being, please,” says a censor source.