Tom’s middle finger goes missing, cuss words get bleeped, a threat gets snipped and yet, his film gets U/A certificate
DNA (October 21, 2016)

Tom Cruise-starrer Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which released today, was given a full cleanup by the CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification aka the Censor Board). As such, all cusswords have been removed to make the action film palatable to all audiences.

A shot of Cruise showing the middle finger has also been removed. And all this sanskari-tisation because the Board perceives that Cruise is a global phenomenon and hence, “He can’t talk like Trump. The Board wants kids to watch Cruise’s new film. All the cuss words had to go,” says an informed source.

Curiously the censor board also cut a line where Cruise says, “His a** is mine.” Smirks our insider, “They must've thought it was a gay proposal. They probably didn't know it is a common threat for putting an adversary in his place.”

It is learnt that Viacom18, the film’s distributors didn’t complain one bit. They’ve complied with all the required deletions. They felt it didn’t affect their film.