India asks ‘Mission: Impossible-Fallout’ makers to omit Kashmir references

India’s Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) Chairman Prasoon Joshi has asked the makers of Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible-Fallout’ to remove or rectify the Kashmir references in the film.

The CBFC certificate states that the board had asked the makers to cut the title before the climax that identified the place Indian occupied Kashmir and a map of the Indian subcontinent that, according to them, ‘misrepresented the boundaries of the state of Jammu and Kashmir’, Times of India reported.

The film has a scene from Indian occupied Kashmir, to which the CBFC has objected to. The board wants the film makers to mention Indian occupied Kashmir as 'Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir'.

The sixth installment of the Mission Impossible series starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, directed by  Christopher McQuarrie had four cuts/modifications made by the CBFC and was released in India on July 27.

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“The integrity and sanctity of our nation’s boundaries cannot and must not be compromised on for the sake of cinematic entertainment,” CBFC chief Prasoon Joshi said.

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 the feelings/sentiments of any region, nationality, community, organization or religion.’

The movie debuted to a $153.5 million weekend at the worldwide box-office. It was initially planned to be shot in India but the Kashmir scenes were instead shot in New Zealand and depicted as Kashmir.