DNA (September 18, 2017)

Remember how Pahlaj Nihalani forbade Daniel Craig from kissing for an extended time in his last James Bond film Spectre? Now, under the new Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) chief Prasoon Joshi, Tom Cruise’s steamy kiss with his co-star Sara Wright has just been “seriously curtailed” in Doug Liman’s American Made.

Sources say, “Tom Cruise, who plays a pilot in the film, is seen smooching and making love to his co-star in a plane. The CBFC board members have cut the smooch and love-making shots almost by 50 per cent.”

According to the source, “There was a heated discussion about the steamy smooch among members of the CBFC before it was unanimously decided that the kiss was unnecessarily prolonged and needs to be trimmed.”